There are several ways that qemu and kvm can communicate. One of them is the ioctl to /dev/kvm and it is documented in Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt. But there's other ways also: like the pages that are mmap-ed from kvm_vcpu_fault function, As far as I know, there is no documentation on such communication channel(but i'm not sure) regards Min-gyu Kim ------- Original Message ------- Sender : Richard Yao<ryao@xxxxxxxxxx> Date : 2012-07-30 14:47 (GMT+09:00) Title : How does QEMU communicate with KVM? Is there any documentation on how QEMU communicates with KVM?ÿ淸º{.nÇ+돴윯돪†+%듚ÿ깁負¥Šwÿº{.nÇ+돴ㅎoâ왲^n‡r⊆¦zË곷h솳鈺Ú&{àz요z받쀺+€Ê+zf"·hš닱~넮녬iÿÿï곴ÿ묎çz_溫æj:+v돣þ)山øm