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On Sunday, July 11th, 2021 at 18:52, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 05:36:12PM +0000, Simon Connah wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I hope this is an appropriate place to post this question. I want to make a > > very simple frontend to KVM, but I have no idea what syscalls the Linux > > kernel exposes to allow userspace programs to work with KVM virtual > > machines. Can someone point me in the right direction, please? I have no > > idea where to look for this information. > > Look at the include/uapi/linux/kvm* files, that is the interface between > > userspace and the kernel for KVM. > > But you might want to look at using something like libvirt, which > > handles most of this already for you. Or look at the source for libvirt > > if you want to do it all yourself. > > Good luck! > > greg k-h Thank you, Greg. That was very helpful. I was going to try and avoid libvirt and roll my own software and see how I get on (I wanted a project to learn Rust with). Simon.
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