"Based on Qemu 5, we built Unicorn2 from scratch"
What?
Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
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Re: Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
#12> Based on Qemu 5, we built Unicorn2 from scratch, […] still maintaining backward compatibility with the current version, […] we also added 2 highly-demanded architectures in PowerPC & RISCV.
Qemu supports RV and PPC!
And that is not what “from scratch” means!
Re: Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
#13For anyone who isn't familiar with Unicorn, it doesn't emulate any specific whole-system, it's a library/framework for emulation of just the CPU. You are responsible for hooking up the whole "rest of the world" to the emulated CPU, for whatever you might need. This includes things like emulating peripherals, syscalls, binary loading, etc.
You usually use it to build your own emulator or other analysis tool, often for reverse engineering.
Re: Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
#14Somewhat relatedly, is there something halfway between QEMU and Unicorn? That is, a full VM in a library, with debugging capabilities. I'd like to be able to configure a VM, save the execution at a specific point, modify memory, run, and stop when some condition is hit (e.g. a memory address is read, or executed). For years I've had this idea of running the Jamella editor in multiple threads to crack Diablo II item seeds.
Re: Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
#15Somewhat relatedly, is there something halfway between QEMU and Unicorn? That is, a full VM in a library, with debugging capabilities. I'd like to be able to configure a VM, save the execution at a specific point, modify memory, run, and stop when some condition is hit (e.g. a memory address is read, or executed). For years I've had this idea of running the Jamella editor in multiple threads to crack Diablo II item s…
Well, there's ptrace/gdb? (Since you mentioned Diablo II, you might want a windows debugger, but same idea)
Re: Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
#16Somewhat relatedly, is there something halfway between QEMU and Unicorn? That is, a full VM in a library, with debugging capabilities. I'd like to be able to configure a VM, save the execution at a specific point, modify memory, run, and stop when some condition is hit (e.g. a memory address is read, or executed). For years I've had this idea of running the Jamella editor in multiple threads to crack Diablo II item s…
Well, there's ptrace/gdb? (Since you mentioned Diablo II, you might want a windows debugger, but same idea)
Well, the program doesn't really work anymore, hence why I want a VM.
Re: Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
#17Re: Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
#18"Based on Qemu 5, we built Unicorn2 from scratch" What?
Unicorn is more like a fork of Qemu than something that depends on it. So what they're saying here is, they reimplemented the Unicorn feature-set (which dramatically diverges from the Qemu feature-set) from scratch based on a newer Qemu branch.
Re: Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
#19Somewhat relatedly, is there something halfway between QEMU and Unicorn? That is, a full VM in a library, with debugging capabilities. I'd like to be able to configure a VM, save the execution at a specific point, modify memory, run, and stop when some condition is hit (e.g. a memory address is read, or executed). For years I've had this idea of running the Jamella editor in multiple threads to crack Diablo II item s…
I use Qiling [0] (built on top of Unicorn) sometimes for this kind of things (it can take application snapshots, that you can restore; and you can also use something similar to x86/x86-64 memory hardware breakpoints too). Might fit what you want, although it can sometimes be in a pain in the rear to set up...
Re: Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
#20Somewhat relatedly, is there something halfway between QEMU and Unicorn? That is, a full VM in a library, with debugging capabilities. I'd like to be able to configure a VM, save the execution at a specific point, modify memory, run, and stop when some condition is hit (e.g. a memory address is read, or executed). For years I've had this idea of running the Jamella editor in multiple threads to crack Diablo II item s…
I use Qiling [0] (built on top of Unicorn) sometimes for this kind of things (it can take application snapshots, that you can restore; and you can also use something similar to x86/x86-64 memory hardware breakpoints too). Might fit what you want, although it can sometimes be in a pain in the rear to set up... [0] https://github.com/qilingframework/qiling
Sweet, thanks. It doesn't seem to be exactly what I'm looking for, in that it simulates (replaces) the OS instead of hosting it, but it's still interesting.