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DRAKVUF Black-box Binary Analysis
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libdrakvuf as an external repository #458

Closed Wenzel closed 6 years ago

Wenzel commented 6 years ago

Hi,

I would like to use libdrakvuf's features in my projects, in order to work at higher-level than LibVMI, in terms of breakpoints mostly.

The reason I'm asking is because I built r2vmi on top of LibVMI, but now i realize that I need more abstractions. Instead of using memory events + emulating/single stepping the entire page, i would like to use fast and invisible breakpoints offered by your library.

@tklengyel what do you think of having libdrakvuf in a separate repository, and Drakvuf using it as a submodule ?

Do you intend to merge these abstractions into LibVMI one day ? When KVM will have a new VMI interface upstream, having LibVMI as the only layer to provide a high-level API would be an interesting goal to reach.

Thanks.

tklengyel commented 6 years ago

No, the features in DRAKVUF are not intended to be merged back into LibVMI. Also, the license of DRAKVUF places special restrictions on integrating it with other projects so using it as just a library is not compatible with most open source licenses (ie can't be combined with plain GPL). So unless you want use the DRAKVUF license on the entire project you integrate it with it is unlikely to work.