On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:38:58PM -0800, Andre Pech wrote: > I have been using qemu to simulate various types of custom hardware > for testing purposes. Rather than having to recompile qemu every time > I change a hardware simulation, I instead patched qemu to support > dynamically loading hardware plugin files at run time. The basic idea > is that you can specify .so files to load on the command line when you > boot qemu. These files will be dlopened by qemu at run time, and will > register themselves as hardware to the appropriate hardware controller > (ie a PCI device hardware plugin registers itself with the PCI bus).
I think the biggest problem would be that a lot of operating systems don't support hotplug PCI. --L _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
