[Qemu-discuss] Hardware component emulation

[Federico Vaga]

Hello,

I'm super new to qemu and I would like to understand more about the hardware 
components emulation. I surfed for some hours on the internet but I cannot 
find much help.
By looking at the source code in the 'hw' directory of the qemu git repository 
I can vaguely guess how it works but I would like to see some explainations: a 
manual.

Then a question. Are these hardware modules dynamically loadable by qemu as 
external modules? I mean, can I compile a hardware component out of the qemu 
tree and load it in the qemu I get from the distro? In other words: I would 
like to have something like Linux kernel modules (.ko) that I attach to qemu 
when I launch it.

Thank you in advance for you help

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Federico Vaga