From 437fd90c0250dee670290f9b714253671a990160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: José Pekkarinen Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:18:31 +0300 Subject: These changes are the raw update to qemu-2.6. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 --- qemu/docs/qmp-intro.txt | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 87 insertions(+) create mode 100644 qemu/docs/qmp-intro.txt (limited to 'qemu/docs/qmp-intro.txt') 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 -- cgit 1.2.3-korg