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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2020-02-28 15:35:51 +0000
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2020-03-06 10:04:57 +0000
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In order to facilitate the reorganization of qemu-doc.texi content, as well as the conversion to rST/Sphinx, split it in multiple .texi files that are included from docs/system. The "other devices" section is renamed to ivshmem and placed last. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Message-id: 20200228153619.9906-6-peter.maydell@linaro.org Message-id: 20200226113034.6741-6-pbonzini@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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+@node pcsys_monitor
+@section QEMU Monitor
+@cindex QEMU monitor
+
+The QEMU monitor is used to give complex commands to the QEMU
+emulator. You can use it to:
+
+@itemize @minus
+
+@item
+Remove or insert removable media images
+(such as CD-ROM or floppies).
+
+@item
+Freeze/unfreeze the Virtual Machine (VM) and save or restore its state
+from a disk file.
+
+@item Inspect the VM state without an external debugger.
+
+@end itemize
+
+@subsection Commands
+
+The following commands are available:
+
+@include qemu-monitor.texi
+
+@include qemu-monitor-info.texi
+
+@subsection 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 @emph{$}.
+