7 The QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) allows applications to operate a
10 QMP is JSON[1] based and features the following:
12 - Lightweight, text-based, easy to parse data format
13 - Asynchronous messages support (ie. events)
14 - Capabilities Negotiation
16 For detailed information on QMP's usage, please, refer to the following files:
18 o qmp-spec.txt QEMU Machine Protocol current specification
19 o qmp-commands.txt QMP supported commands (auto-generated at build-time)
20 o qmp-events.txt List of available asynchronous events
22 [1] http://www.json.org
27 You can use the -qmp option to enable QMP. For example, the following
28 makes QMP available on localhost port 4444:
30 $ qemu [...] -qmp tcp:localhost:4444,server,nowait
32 However, for more flexibility and to make use of more options, the -mon
33 command-line option should be used. For instance, the following example
34 creates one HMP instance (human monitor) on stdio and one QMP instance
35 on localhost port 4444:
37 $ qemu [...] -chardev stdio,id=mon0 -mon chardev=mon0,mode=readline \
38 -chardev socket,id=mon1,host=localhost,port=4444,server,nowait \
39 -mon chardev=mon1,mode=control,pretty=on
41 Please, refer to QEMU's manpage for more information.
46 To manually test QMP one can connect with telnet and issue commands by hand:
48 $ telnet localhost 4444
50 Connected to localhost.
51 Escape character is '^]'.
67 { "execute": "qmp_capabilities" }
73 { "execute": "query-status" }
76 "status": "prelaunch",
82 Please, refer to the qapi-schema.json file for a complete command reference.
87 http://wiki.qemu-project.org/QMP