| 1 | .. _QEMU monitor: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | QEMU Monitor |
| 4 | ------------ |
| 5 | |
| 6 | The QEMU monitor is used to give complex commands to the QEMU emulator. |
| 7 | You can use it to: |
| 8 | |
| 9 | - Remove or insert removable media images (such as CD-ROM or |
| 10 | floppies). |
| 11 | |
| 12 | - Freeze/unfreeze the Virtual Machine (VM) and save or restore its |
| 13 | state from a disk file. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | - Inspect the VM state without an external debugger. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Commands |
| 18 | ~~~~~~~~ |
| 19 | |
| 20 | The following commands are available: |
| 21 | |
| 22 | .. hxtool-doc:: hmp-commands.hx |
| 23 | |
| 24 | .. hxtool-doc:: hmp-commands-info.hx |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Integer expressions |
| 27 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 28 | |
| 29 | The monitor understands integers expressions for every integer argument. |
| 30 | You can use register names to get the value of specifics CPU registers |
| 31 | by prefixing them with *$*. |