NAME¶
qemuctl - Graphical control for qemu
SYNTAX¶
qemuctl [
-suspend-dir <
dir>] [
-suspend-file
<
filename>] [
-qemu <
qemu>]
[
-nowakeup] qemu-options
DESCRIPTION¶
qemuctl is a gui that controls a qemu process with the built-in monitor of qemu.
So you can change devices, suspend machines, save screenshots, ...
If you suspend a machine it will do the following macro:
stop
screendump "suspend-dir/suspend-file.ppm"
savevm "suspend-dir/suspend-file.vm"
commit
quit
You can afterwards resume the machine with:
qemuctl -suspend-dir suspend-dir -suspend-file suspend-file your_qemu_options
the suspend-files will then be deleted
or
qemuctl -loadvm suspend-dir/suspend-file.vm your_qemu_options
Be aware that you can't use the "-monitor" option with qemuctl,
because it needs the control over the monitor. The option "-serial
stdio" can't be used, too.
OPTIONS¶
- -suspend-file <filename>
- This option is normaly used by qemuctl to support suspend
and wakeup. qemuctl can then find the vm-state-file in its folders and
wakeup the virtual machine. If the file is there the qemuctl waes up the
virtual machine and deletes the file afterwards. On suspend the
vm-state-file is then stored as the <filename> with the .vm ending
and the screenshot is stored as the <filename> with the .ppm ending.
Default filename is "suspend".
- -suspend-dir <dir>
- This is the dir where the suspend files would be stored or
expected.
Default is current dir.
- -nowakeup
- Don't wake up even if the vm-file is there. Suspend still
works.
Default is to wake up using the vm-file if it is there.
- -qemu <qemu>
- The qemu variation to use. It can be qemu or kvm.
Default is qemu.
- qemu-options
- Use qemu-options for the launch of qemu. See qemu(1) for
further details.
FILES¶
none
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶
none
EXAMPLES¶
To use the suspend file 'Debian 3.1' and store/search it in the '/qemu' dir:
qemuctl -suspend-file "Debian 3.1" -suspend-dir "/qemu"
-boot c -hda hda.raw
Alternativly you can run it with default suspend filenames:
qemuctl -boot c -hda hda.raw
AUTHORS¶
Peter Rustler
SEE ALSO¶
qemu(1) qemu-launcher(1)
