qmp-shell-wrap - Man Page

qmp-shell-wrap [-h] [-H] [-v] [-p] [-l LOGFILE] ...

Launch QEMU and connect to it with qmp-shell in a single command. CLI arguments will be forwarded to qemu, with additional arguments added to allow qmp-shell to then connect to the recently launched QEMU instance.

positional arguments:

command               QEMU command line to invoke

optional arguments:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-H, --hmp

Use HMP interface

-v, --verbose

Verbose (echo commands sent and received)

-p, --pretty

Pretty-print JSON

-l LOGFILE, --logfile LOGFILE

Save log of all QMP messages to PATH

> qmp-shell-wrap qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35 -m 4096 -display none
Welcome to the QMP low-level shell!
Connected
(QEMU)

Refer to qmp-shell(1) for information on syntax and operation of the qmp-shell utility itself.

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