I've only implemented this functionality for the pc system emulator for
PCI hardware plugin devices, since that's all I need it for at the
moment. There's obviously more to be done to implement this in a nice
way across all architectures for all hardware types, which I'm very
interested in doing if
Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
I think the biggest problem would be that a lot of operating systems
don't support hotplug PCI.
I think Michael's idea was rather to select the hardware to use during
qemu startup rather then to change it while the system is up and
runnning. Therefore hotplugging w
This functionality is not strictly for hotplugging. Maybe my use of the
term hardware plugin was misleading. The patch adds the ability to pass
a .so file compiled against qemu's header files to qemu on the command
line. This .so file is dlopened and registers itself as hardware
appropriately, all
Can you post the patch somewhere?
I've looked into this myself in the past and some devices are more
easily abstracted than others because of some strange dependencies. I'm
curious to see what devices you've turned into plugins and how you've
solved these problems (I assume that you would mak
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 hardwa
Hi.
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 17:38 -0800, Andre Pech wrote:
> I change a hardware simulation, I instead patched qemu to support
> dynamically loading hardware plugin files at run time.
> [...]
> I am more than willing to put all the effort into turning this into a
> nice patch, if there is a maintain
Hi,
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 spe
