Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of qemu-monitor

Timestamp:

May 22, 2011, 7:41:39 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Jamie McClelland

Comment:

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qemu-monitor

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+= QEMU Monitor on running KVM guests =
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+Each KVM guests have a [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/en/wiki/QEMU/Monitor qemu monitor], which allows you to interact with the running guests via the software the powers the guest.
+
+To start the qemu monitor, login as the guest user account. For example, to access julia.mayfirst.org, login as julia to julia's host (pietri.mayfirst.org):
+
+{{{
+ssh julia@pietri.mayfirst.org
+}}}
+
+Then run the following command (chaning julia to the name of the guest in question):
+
+{{{
+julia@pietri:~$ socat vms/julia/monitor.socket STDIO
+}}}
+
+Here's an example session (see ticket #4254 for context):
+
+{{{
+julia@pietri:~$ socat vms/julia/monitor.socket STDIO
+QEMU 0.12.5 monitor - type 'help' for more information
+(qemu) info balloon
+info balloon
+balloon: actual=3072
+(qemu) balloon 2500
+balloon 2500
+(qemu) ^Cjulia@pietri:~$ 
+}}}
+
+Note the use of ctrl-C to detach from the monitor -- if you were to do exit or quit instead, you would be effectively asking the kvm process itself to die. You don't want that!
+
+