Re: [Qemu-devel] Interest in hardware plugin functionality

[Lennert Buytenhek]

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