Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 47/48] plugin: support guest hooks

2018-11-27 Thread Alex Bennée
Emilio G. Cota writes: > These "hooks" are callbacks from the guest to plugins. This is > useful when we need guest-host communication, for instance to > signal the beginning/end of a certain "region of interest" in > the guest program. Simulators typically would use "magic" > instructions for

[Qemu-devel] [RFC 47/48] plugin: support guest hooks

2018-10-25 Thread Emilio G. Cota
These "hooks" are callbacks from the guest to plugins. This is useful when we need guest-host communication, for instance to signal the beginning/end of a certain "region of interest" in the guest program. Simulators typically would use "magic" instructions for this, but that is painful to maintain