On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:27:57PM -0800, Don Raikes wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to qemu, but have a specific application in mind. > > I want to use a qemu emulated knopix system on a usb key to do diagnostics on > a running windows system. > > Is there a way for me to access things like the host system's memory to get a > dump of it, host system hardware configuration so I can gain a map of what > hardware is in the system, and/or what processes are running on the host > system? > > I know how to do all this from a system that has been rebooted and is running > from a linux liveCd, but I want to make this a plug-and-play test system. > > Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Of course not in the normal case. However you might take a look at vhostmd: http://gitorious.org/vhostmd although AFAIK no one has tried porting vhostmd to Windows. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw