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QEMU Monitor
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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
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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 *$*.