Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support

2006-10-26 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi,

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Rob Landley wrote:

 On Tuesday 24 October 2006 6:47 am, Flavio Visentin wrote:
  At this point it's really cleaner and maybe simpler to use XML
 
 Have you ever implemented a validating XML parser?  I have.  It only 
 _looks_ clean and simple.

+1



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[Qemu-devel] How to get guestOS's information

2006-10-26 Thread KazuyaMatsunaga

Hello,

It is impolite to write an unexpected letter. I am a college student in 
Japan. I belong to information processing system laboratory, and I work on 
intrusion detection system. We are developing intrusion detection system 
using system calls. Now, it operates only on Linux. I would like to operate 
it in more platforms. I think it is possible to found guest OS’s 
abnormality by observing it from the hostOS. I would be extremely happy if 
it could be operated on the Qemu. Do you think that it is possible? Now, my 
system uses only processID and frequency of system calls. In a word, I would 
like to know how to get gestOS’s information (processID and frequency of 
system calls).




Any help would be greatly appreciated.



Regards,

kazuya



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[Qemu-devel] proprietary MIPS based ASIC

2006-10-26 Thread larytet . 39605663
 Hello,



I am a software developer working in a chip maker. One of our chips
- dual MIPS 4Kec with GPON/BPON related peripherals, DDR, interrupt contorller,
SPI, I2C and UART. This is SoC (System ooon Chip) which should run small chunk
of software, like proprietary protocol stack, small RTOS (may be commercial
one like Velosity or OSS like eCOS)



How hard it is going to be to emulate
full system like this ? Any examples/tutorials where to start ? Any experience
of porting QEMU to other platforms ? Let's say MIPS+DDR+simple interrupt 
controller
and no other peripherals 


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Re: [Qemu-devel] proprietary MIPS based ASIC

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Brook
On Thursday 26 October 2006 08:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hello,



 I am a software developer working in a chip maker. One of our chips
 - dual MIPS 4Kec with GPON/BPON related peripherals, DDR, interrupt
 contorller, SPI, I2C and UART. This is SoC (System ooon Chip) which should
 run small chunk of software, like proprietary protocol stack, small RTOS
 (may be commercial one like Velosity or OSS like eCOS)



 How hard it is going to be to emulate
 full system like this ? Any examples/tutorials where to start ? Any
 experience of porting QEMU to other platforms ? Let's say MIPS+DDR+simple
 interrupt controller and no other peripherals

I suggest you look at the existing targets. e.g. the existing mips and ARM 
targets. IMHO it's not that hard to add new boards.

Paul


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Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support

2006-10-26 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 11:01 am, Paul Brook wrote:
Oh, c'mon, Rob! I really didn't want to ask Paul Brook that, but
  sure you'll fix my cluelessness right here, right now - tell me, tell me,
  why Linux has dynamic-loadable modules support, which clueless passers-by
  like me call plugins? It must be closed-source diversion, no?
 
 Linux has genuine reasons for wanting modules.
 Kernel size is important because (a) it has to be loaded by the bootloader, 
 often from a small, slow device (eg. floppy, flash or network).
 (b) The whole kernel is permanently locked into ram. It you've ever tried to 
 build a kernel with everything enable you'll know the result is unreasonably 
 large. Modules allow the same kernel to work on a wide variety of large and 
 small machines.

It also avoids a reboot cycle when you want to debug small changes to drivers 
(assuming you didn't crash).  Restarting a userspace app (like qemu) takes 
five seconds.  Restarting the kernel can take a minute and change, and often 
involves pressing a button on a machine that's shoved under a desk and hard 
to get at.

I've found avoiding the reboot cycle to be a nice thing with qemu (and User 
Mode Linux), but alas you can't test a driver for hardware qemu doesn't 
emulate.  Nice for filesystems and VM stuff, though...

Rob
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when there is no longer anything to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery


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Re: [Qemu-devel] How to get guestOS's information

2006-10-26 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 26 October 2006 3:23 am, KazuyaMatsunaga wrote:
 Hello,
 
 It is impolite to write an unexpected letter.

Compared to the mountains of spam I get every day?  Not really. :)

 I am a college student in  
 Japan. I belong to information processing system laboratory, and I work on 
 intrusion detection system. We are developing intrusion detection system 
 using system calls. Now, it operates only on Linux. I would like to operate 
 it in more platforms. I think it is possible to found guest OS’s 
 abnormality by observing it from the hostOS. I would be extremely happy if 
 it could be operated on the Qemu. Do you think that it is possible? Now, my 
 system uses only processID and frequency of system calls. In a word, I would 
 like to know how to get gestOS’s information (processID and frequency of 
 system calls).

If your guest os is using sysenter you could hook that and see how often it's 
getting called.  Or perhaps intercept interrupt 80.

That's about the end of my useful suggestions, though.  Unfortunately 
ProcessID is an abstraction that QEMU doesn't know anything about (it's 
translating machine language instructions and emulating hardware; what it's 
_doing_ is another matter).  Trying to get QEMU to do it is a bit like trying 
to add hardware to your system to determine which user accounts are accessing 
your hard drive.  Your PCI bus doesn't know what a user account is: it's at 
the wrong level and that information just isn't present there.

You'd have to modify the OS you're running to collect that info, unless you 
can figure out execatly where in memory it's stored and add some kind of 
trace to monitor that memory location.  (And that location could easily 
change each time you reboot the system.)

I'm guessing you modified Linux to collect this information.  To get Windows 
or Solaris to do it, you'd have to modify those OSes too.

Rob
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Re: [Qemu-devel] How to get guestOS's information

2006-10-26 Thread andrzej zaborowski

Hi,

On 26/10/06, KazuyaMatsunaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello,

It is impolite to write an unexpected letter. I am a college student in
Japan. I belong to information processing system laboratory, and I work on
intrusion detection system. We are developing intrusion detection system
using system calls. Now, it operates only on Linux. I would like to operate
it in more platforms. I think it is possible to found guest OS's
abnormality by observing it from the hostOS. I would be extremely happy if
it could be operated on the Qemu. Do you think that it is possible? Now, my
system uses only processID and frequency of system calls. In a word, I would
like to know how to get gestOS's information (processID and frequency of
system calls).


This is a bit difficult because these things are not standarised in
any way across architectures and across operating systems. If you know
that your guest OS is Linux, though, you can quite easily extract this
information if you have the kernel's sources (but still not in an
architecture independent way), without modifying the kernel or qemu.
For example I recently found that on ARM the list of processes and any
associated information can be obtained in gdb with:

(gdb) print ((struct task_struct *) (((void *) ((struct thread_info *)
($sp  ~8191))-task-tasks-next) - 0x6c))-comm
then
(gdb) print ((struct task_struct *) (((void *) ((struct thread_info *)
($sp  ~8191))-task-tasks-next-next) - 0x6c))-comm

and so on iterating until you hit the same process again, provided
that the kernel's symbol table is loaded. The number 6c is the offset
of the field tasks inside the struct task_struct which is defined in
include/linux/sched.h which [the offset] is architecture dependent,
and the ($sp  ~8191) part is the text of the current_thread_info()
function, defined in include/asm-arm/thread_info.h and is also arch
dependent but should be something similar on i386. The advantage that
using gdb has over ps is that it works even before the kernel starts
userspace and even after a kernel crash. Now to intercept syscalls
it's enough to set breakpoints in the right places. This can be done
using gdb or you can make a very simple program that talks to qemu
over the gdb protocol.

If you're willing to modify qemu, several architectures have a special
instruction used for syscalls, like swi on arm and int on i386,
which you can easily trap, but it's not obligatory for an OS to use
this instruction.

As Rob said the only *correct*, and the easiest way is to modify the
guest kernel.

hth,
Andrzej


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Re: [Qemu-devel] How to get guestOS's information

2006-10-26 Thread andrzej zaborowski

On 26/10/06, andrzej zaborowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

On 26/10/06, KazuyaMatsunaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello,

 It is impolite to write an unexpected letter. I am a college student in
 Japan. I belong to information processing system laboratory, and I work on
 intrusion detection system. We are developing intrusion detection system
 using system calls. Now, it operates only on Linux. I would like to operate
 it in more platforms. I think it is possible to found guest OS's
 abnormality by observing it from the hostOS. I would be extremely happy if
 it could be operated on the Qemu. Do you think that it is possible? Now, my
 system uses only processID and frequency of system calls. In a word, I would
 like to know how to get gestOS's information (processID and frequency of
 system calls).

This is a bit difficult because these things are not standarised in
any way across architectures and across operating systems. If you know
that your guest OS is Linux, though, you can quite easily extract this
information if you have the kernel's sources (but still not in an
architecture independent way), without modifying the kernel or qemu.
For example I recently found that on ARM the list of processes and any
associated information can be obtained in gdb with:

(gdb) print ((struct task_struct *) (((void *) ((struct thread_info *)
($sp  ~8191))-task-tasks-next) - 0x6c))-comm
then
(gdb) print ((struct task_struct *) (((void *) ((struct thread_info *)
($sp  ~8191))-task-tasks-next-next) - 0x6c))-comm

and so on iterating until you hit the same process again, provided
that the kernel's symbol table is loaded. The number 6c is the offset
of the field tasks inside the struct task_struct which is defined in
include/linux/sched.h which [the offset] is architecture dependent,
and the ($sp  ~8191) part is the text of the current_thread_info()
function, defined in include/asm-arm/thread_info.h and is also arch
dependent but should be something similar on i386. The advantage that


Yep. Now that I checked, exactly the same except you probably have to
replace sp with esp and if you're using 4K stacks then it's 4095
instead of 8191.


using gdb has over ps is that it works even before the kernel starts
userspace and even after a kernel crash. Now to intercept syscalls
it's enough to set breakpoints in the right places. This can be done
using gdb or you can make a very simple program that talks to qemu
over the gdb protocol.

If you're willing to modify qemu, several architectures have a special
instruction used for syscalls, like swi on arm and int on i386,
which you can easily trap, but it's not obligatory for an OS to use
this instruction.

As Rob said the only *correct*, and the easiest way is to modify the
guest kernel.

hth,
Andrzej




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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vs gcc4

2006-10-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 03:39:18PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
 gcc -Wall -O2 -g -fno-strict-aliasing -I. -I.. 
 -I/home/landley/qemu/nowt.dyndns.org/qemu/target-sparc 
 -I/home/landley/qemu/nowt.dyndns.org/qemu 
 -I/home/landley/qemu/nowt.dyndns.org/qemu/host-i386 -D_GNU_SOURCE 
 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE 
 -I/home/landley/qemu/nowt.dyndns.org/qemu/fpu 
 -I/home/landley/qemu/nowt.dyndns.org/qemu/slirp -c -o 
 tcx.o /home/landley/qemu/nowt.dyndns.org/qemu/hw/tcx.c
 /home/landley/qemu/nowt.dyndns.org/qemu/hw/tcx.c: In 
 function ???tcx_draw_line32???:
 /home/landley/qemu/nowt.dyndns.org/qemu/hw/tcx.c:94: error: invalid lvalue in 
 increment
 /home/landley/qemu/nowt.dyndns.org/qemu/hw/tcx.c: In 
 function ???tcx_draw_line16???:
 /home/landley/qemu/nowt.dyndns.org/qemu/hw/tcx.c:106: error: invalid lvalue 
 in 
 increment

This is an unrelated problem, and much easier to fix.  Don't increment
casts.

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Re: [Qemu-devel] proprietary MIPS based ASIC

2006-10-26 Thread Stefan Weil
There exists a QEMU system emulation for AR7 based DSL routers.

AR7 is a SoC based on MIPS 4KEc, so some part of the
work needed for your system was done there.

See http://ar7-firmware.berlios.de/ for more information.
Patched QEMU sources are in Subversion on BerliOS.

Regards
Stefan

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
 Hello,



 I am a software developer working in a chip maker. One of our chips
 - dual MIPS 4Kec with GPON/BPON related peripherals, DDR, interrupt
 contorller,
 SPI, I2C and UART. This is SoC (System ooon Chip) which should run
 small chunk
 of software, like proprietary protocol stack, small RTOS (may be
 commercial
 one like Velosity or OSS like eCOS)



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[Qemu-devel] arm-test updated to linux-2.6.18

2006-10-26 Thread Michael Opdenacker

Hello,

I updated the arm-test testcase (from Paul Brook) for linux-2.6.18 
(instead of 2.6.17-rc3).

See http://free-electrons.com/pub/qemu/demos/arm/arm-test/linux-2.6.18/

I tested it successfully with qemu-0.8.2.

Note that I never managed to make the graphics work with the 2.6.17-rc3 
version (whatever the qemu version). With this version, everything works 
great.


You may want to update the version on http://qemu.org/download.html with 
this new one.


   Cheers,

   Michael.

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Re: [Qemu-devel] How to get guestOS's information

2006-10-26 Thread maestro
Am Donnerstag, den 26.10.2006, 16:23 +0900 schrieb KazuyaMatsunaga:
 Hello,
 
 It is impolite to write an unexpected letter. I am a college student in 
 Japan. I belong to information processing system laboratory, and I work on 
 intrusion detection system. We are developing intrusion detection system 
 using system calls. Now, it operates only on Linux. I would like to operate 
 it in more platforms. I think it is possible to found guest OS’s 
 abnormality by observing it from the hostOS. I would be extremely happy if 
 it could be operated on the Qemu. Do you think that it is possible? Now, my 
 system uses only processID and frequency of system calls. In a word, I would 
 like to know how to get gestOS’s information (processID and frequency of 
 system calls).
 
 
 
 Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
 
 
 Regards,
 
 kazuya
hello kazuya!

some people here commented on the system call problems. i'd like to say
some words about processIDs:
You might want to consider useing the Page Directory Base Register (PDBR
aka cr3 or in qemu-x86 env-cr[3]) to idenify differnet processes. afaik
it is then OS-dependant how to get the corresponding PID. I did this for
windows and i assume it's a lot easier to do the same for linux/*BSD (as
the source is available). Since you probably will need to check for the
current process quite often, the shorter access times for this
information might come in handy.

cheers
m.



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Re: [Qemu-devel] How to get guestOS's information

2006-10-26 Thread Jamie Lokier
maestro wrote:
 You might want to consider useing the Page Directory Base Register (PDBR
 aka cr3 or in qemu-x86 env-cr[3]) to idenify differnet processes. afaik
 it is then OS-dependant how to get the corresponding PID. I did this for
 windows and i assume it's a lot easier to do the same for linux/*BSD (as
 the source is available). Since you probably will need to check for the
 current process quite often, the shorter access times for this
 information might come in handy.

Good idea.

However, on Linux cr3 is not updated for every process.  Specifically,
it is not updated for kernel threads which don't have any user-space
mappings of their own.  This is to avoid unnecessary TLB flushes.

-- Jamie


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[FreeSBIE LVC] Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu/hw ide.c

2006-10-26 Thread Juergen Lock
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
CVSROOT:   /sources/qemu
Module name:   qemu
Changes by:Fabrice Bellard bellard   06/08/07 21:36:34

Modified files:
   hw : ide.c 

Log message:
   use AIO for DMA transfers - enabled DMA for CDROMs

Hi!

 I just tried FreeSBIE LVC (see announcement here:
http://www.riondabsd.net/2006/10/13/announce-freesbie-lvc-is-out/
) with qemu cvs (using this experimental port update:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20061026201752.GA51540
) and it hung, printing:
atapi_poll called!
repeatedly on the console.  Disabling USE_DMA_CDROM in hw/ide.c made it
boot.  So this seems to be a variation of the old problem of the cdrom
dma patch being incompatible with FreeBSD atapicam. (FreeSBIE still has
atapicam in the kernel, and back when the first cdrom dma patch was
posted it caused the cd being detected as a disk (da) on an older
FreeBSD atapicam guest...)


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