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| author | Ali Shirvani <alishir@routerhosting.com> | 2021-05-19 11:41:45 +0430 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2021-05-26 14:49:58 +0200 |
| commit | 16b3f3bbab7db8f87bdb5ddb226bf19c4c55abdd (patch) | |
| tree | eee11ecdb665be779e111d790bd9b93c6c854795 | |
| parent | 632a8873500d27022c584256afc11e57e2418b94 (diff) | |
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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.hx | 7 |
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 |