docs/system/monitor.rst
.. _QEMU monitor:
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
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 $.