Re: [Xen-devel] HVM context

[NAHieu <nahieu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/10/2009 22:47, "Eads, Joshua Michael (S&T-Student)" <jmer43@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I have an HVM guest and I am trying to have a usermode program in Dom0 query
>> the context (CPU registers, specifically) of the guest.
>>
>> I first tried using xc_domain_getcontext() in xenctrl.h but I haven't figured
>> out what data structure ctxt_buf is that it returns.  Next, I have tried 
>> using
>> xc_vcpu_getcontext() in xenctrl.h but so far it always returns -1 for 
>> failure.
>> For xc_vcpu_getcontext, I am passing in a vcpu number of 1 (I only have a
>> single virtual CPU domU running) along with an unallocated
>> vcpu_guest_context_t pointer.
>>
>> Is this the right direction to pull guest registers, or is there another
>> method I need to use to get the HVM guest context?
>
> For an HVM guest you can use xc_domain_hvm_getcontext() or
> xc_domain_hvm_getcontext_partial(). You then have to pick apart the bag of
> bytes you get back. The save format is documented to some extent in
> xen/include/public/arch-x86/hvm/save.h

So that means xc_vcpu_getcontext() is only valid for PV domains?

Thanks,
H

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