| .. _QEMU monitor: | |
| QEMU Monitor | |
| ------------ | |
| The QEMU monitor is used to give complex commands to the QEMU emulator. | |
| You can use it to: | |
| - Remove or insert removable media images (such as CD-ROM or | |
| floppies). | |
| - Freeze/unfreeze the Virtual Machine (VM) and save or restore its | |
| state from a disk file. | |
| - Inspect the VM state without an external debugger. | |
| Commands | |
| ~~~~~~~~ | |
| The following commands are available: | |
| .. hxtool-doc:: hmp-commands.hx | |
| .. hxtool-doc:: hmp-commands-info.hx | |
| Integer expressions | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| The monitor understands integers expressions for every integer argument. | |
| You can use register names to get the value of specifics CPU registers | |
| by prefixing them with *$*. |