docs/system/monitor.rst

   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 *$*.