Re: [Qemu-devel] propose a new idea for GSOC 2014

[Fabien Chouteau]

On 03/19/2014 11:51 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Daniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I would like to propose a new idea for GSOC 2014 that I want to implement
>> for QEMU. Since QEMU are widely used for binary analysis, dynamic binary
>> code instrumentation and so on.
>> Can we provide the framework like Pin (A Dynamic Binary Instrumentation
>> Tool) for those areas in QEMU? Different from that, our framework can
>> support both user and kernel level instrumentation.
>>
>> Some potential works may include:
>> (1) Trace the instructions under a specified system call context (without
>> interrupt code);
>> (2) Integrate Xed2 for supporting disassembling. Xed2 is a very convenient
>> tool and provides bunch of APIs for disassembling.
>> (3) Support instrumentation abilities for guest OS event. For example, (1)
>> print the value of "EAX" before a specified instruction gets executed; (2)
>> print system call arguments for a certain system call.
> 

Interesting idea Daniel,

my company is using QEMU to generate execution traces that are used for
code coverage analysis. We are interested in a more generic binary
analysis integration in QEMU.

Regards,