Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qmp: extend QMP to provide read/write access to physical memory

[Markus Armbruster]

"Bryan D. Payne" <address@hidden> writes:

>>
>> Out of curiosity, what are existing solutions?
>>
>
> Basically just attaching gdb and pulling memory out manually (or writing a
> program to do the same).

Can you explain again why the existing commands to read guest memory
(from the top of my head: dump-guest-memory, memsave, pmemsave) are
insufficient?  How does your solution improve on them?  What exactly can
it do what these commands can't?  What exactly can't it do what these
commands can?

I feel we need to understand the answers to these questions to sensibly
evolve the API in this area.

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