[Bochs-developers] monitoring OS API calls

[Fabian Scheler]

Hi,

well, how should this be possible with the help of an emulator like
bochs? All you have is a binary image containing windows that is
executed by bochs, how do you want to find out which API functions are
called? At least you need a windows image that also contains debug
symbols so you can find out which addresses are related to a OS API
call. When you have this you may extend the simulation of the
call-instruction to trace the OS API calls.

Ciao, Fabian

2006/3/25, Saulius Krasuckas <saulius2 at ar.fi.lt>:
> Hi,
>
> I mean Windows there - my primary aim is to monitor WinAPI calls.  There
> exists quite a few of monitor apps to achieve this.  But their nature is
> soft-intrusive - they patch system DLLs on disk or PE images in memory.
>
> I'd like to monitor calling of a functions from a lower-level side.  One
> possibility is to rewrite system DLLs, which is hard in a case of Windows.
> Maybe another possibility can be to run OS in machine emulator and to
> break on reading/executing some virtual memory addresses?  I imagine
> physical memory maps into linear addresses which maps into virtual
> addresses (perhaps into unshared space of each win32 process).
>
> Then it would be nice to implement a Debug Logging similar to one from the
> Wine project. [*]
>
> What effort is needed to implement breaking of emulation on execution of
> given/defined virtual addresses (plus reading a CPU state and virtual
> memory) of different Windows OS versions inside machine emulator?
>
> Can such code be put as some plugin to BOCHS or so?  Maybe I need to look
> at the different machine virtualization projects like Qemu?
>
>
> [*] http://winehq.org/site/developer-cheatsheet
>
>
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