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author | 2016-05-18 13:18:31 +0300 | |
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committer | 2016-05-18 13:42:15 +0300 | |
commit | 437fd90c0250dee670290f9b714253671a990160 (patch) | |
tree | b871786c360704244a07411c69fb58da9ead4a06 /qemu/docs/qmp-intro.txt | |
parent | 5bbd6fe9b8bab2a93e548c5a53b032d1939eec05 (diff) |
These changes are the raw update to qemu-2.6.
Collission happened in the following patches:
migration: do cleanup operation after completion(738df5b9)
Bug fix.(1750c932f86)
kvmclock: add a new function to update env->tsc.(b52baab2)
The code provided by the patches was already in the upstreamed
version.
Change-Id: I3cc11841a6a76ae20887b2e245710199e1ea7f9a
Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
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diff --git a/qemu/docs/qmp-intro.txt b/qemu/docs/qmp-intro.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f6a3a031e --- /dev/null +++ b/qemu/docs/qmp-intro.txt @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ + QEMU Machine Protocol + ===================== + +Introduction +------------ + +The QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) allows applications to operate a +QEMU instance. + +QMP is JSON[1] based and features the following: + +- Lightweight, text-based, easy to parse data format +- Asynchronous messages support (ie. events) +- Capabilities Negotiation + +For detailed information on QMP's usage, please, refer to the following files: + +o qmp-spec.txt QEMU Machine Protocol current specification +o qmp-commands.txt QMP supported commands (auto-generated at build-time) +o qmp-events.txt List of available asynchronous events + +[1] http://www.json.org + +Usage +----- + +You can use the -qmp option to enable QMP. For example, the following +makes QMP available on localhost port 4444: + +$ qemu [...] -qmp tcp:localhost:4444,server,nowait + +However, for more flexibility and to make use of more options, the -mon +command-line option should be used. For instance, the following example +creates one HMP instance (human monitor) on stdio and one QMP instance +on localhost port 4444: + +$ qemu [...] -chardev stdio,id=mon0 -mon chardev=mon0,mode=readline \ + -chardev socket,id=mon1,host=localhost,port=4444,server,nowait \ + -mon chardev=mon1,mode=control,pretty=on + +Please, refer to QEMU's manpage for more information. + +Simple Testing +-------------- + +To manually test QMP one can connect with telnet and issue commands by hand: + +$ telnet localhost 4444 +Trying 127.0.0.1... +Connected to localhost. +Escape character is '^]'. +{ + "QMP": { + "version": { + "qemu": { + "micro": 50, + "minor": 6, + "major": 1 + }, + "package": "" + }, + "capabilities": [ + ] + } +} + +{ "execute": "qmp_capabilities" } +{ + "return": { + } +} + +{ "execute": "query-status" } +{ + "return": { + "status": "prelaunch", + "singlestep": false, + "running": false + } +} + +Please, refer to the qapi-schema.json file for a complete command reference. + +QMP wiki page +------------- + +http://wiki.qemu-project.org/QMP |