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 qemu-qmp-ref.html QEMU QMP commands and events (auto-generated at build-time)
21 [1] https://www.json.org
26 You can use the -qmp option to enable QMP. For example, the following
27 makes QMP available on localhost port 4444:
29 $ qemu [...] -qmp tcp:localhost:4444,server=on,wait=off
31 However, for more flexibility and to make use of more options, the -mon
32 command-line option should be used. For instance, the following example
33 creates one HMP instance (human monitor) on stdio and one QMP instance
34 on localhost port 4444:
36 $ qemu [...] -chardev stdio,id=mon0 -mon chardev=mon0,mode=readline \
37 -chardev socket,id=mon1,host=localhost,port=4444,server=on,wait=off \
38 -mon chardev=mon1,mode=control,pretty=on
40 Please, refer to QEMU's manpage for more information.
45 To manually test QMP one can connect with telnet and issue commands by hand:
47 $ telnet localhost 4444
49 Connected to localhost.
50 Escape character is '^]'.
67 { "execute": "qmp_capabilities" }
73 { "execute": "query-status" }
76 "status": "prelaunch",
82 Please refer to docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.* for a complete command
83 reference, generated from qapi/qapi-schema.json.
88 https://wiki.qemu.org/QMP