Re: QEMU Plugins to monitor VM state changes

[Alex Bennée]

Jayakrishna Vadayath <jvadayat@asu.edu> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm very new to writing QEMU plugins and I was looking for a way that a 
> plugin could be notified of a change in the VM state.
> For example, the -S flag is used to change the state using the runstate_set 
> function.
> In this case, would it be possible for a plugin to be notified of this
> change ?

Currently you can register idle/resume callbacks which can be used to
show when the vCPU is sleeping waiting for I/O. The wider state in QEMU
of when the vCPU is stopped is not reported as it should not be visible
to the guest.

What are you trying to achieve?

>
> Thank you for you help.


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Alex Bennée