Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] backdoor: Add documentation

[Anthony Liguori]

On 12/06/2011 04:36 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 2011/12/5 Lluís Vilanova<address@hidden>:
> > +3. Build QEMU with the backdoor feature:
> > +
> > +    /path/to/qemu/configure --with-backdoor=/tmp/my-backdoor-qemu
>
> If we want to do this wouldn't it make more sense to do it
> by having qemu dynamically load a plugin DLL with a specified
> ABI rather than having to compile the specific backdoor
> handler into qemu proper?

No way.  If you want to implement a custom device, then send a proper patch. 
We're not adding hooks to let people add random things like this.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -- PMM