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authorAli Shirvani <alishir@routerhosting.com>2021-05-19 11:41:45 +0430
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2021-05-26 14:49:58 +0200
commit16b3f3bbab7db8f87bdb5ddb226bf19c4c55abdd (patch)
treeeee11ecdb665be779e111d790bd9b93c6c854795
parent632a8873500d27022c584256afc11e57e2418b94 (diff)
doc: Add notes about -mon option mode=control argument.
The mode=control argument configures a QMP monitor. Signed-off-by: Ali Shirvani <alishir@routerhosting.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-Id: <0799f0de89ad2482672b5d61d0de61e6eba782da.1621407918.git.alishir@routerhosting.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--qemu-options.hx7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 8116f79818..14258784b3 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -3799,8 +3799,11 @@ DEF("mon", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_mon, \
"-mon [chardev=]name[,mode=readline|control][,pretty[=on|off]]\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
SRST
``-mon [chardev=]name[,mode=readline|control][,pretty[=on|off]]``
- Setup monitor on chardev name. ``pretty`` is only valid when
- ``mode=control``, turning on JSON pretty printing to ease
+ Setup monitor on chardev name. ``mode=control`` configures
+ a QMP monitor (a JSON RPC-style protocol) and it is not the
+ same as HMP, the human monitor that has a "(qemu)" prompt.
+ ``pretty`` is only valid when ``mode=control``,
+ turning on JSON pretty printing to ease
human reading and debugging.
ERST