1.. _pcsys_005fmonitor: 2 3QEMU Monitor 4------------ 5 6The QEMU monitor is used to give complex commands to the QEMU emulator. 7You can use it to: 8 9- Remove or insert removable media images (such as CD-ROM or 10 floppies). 11 12- Freeze/unfreeze the Virtual Machine (VM) and save or restore its 13 state from a disk file. 14 15- Inspect the VM state without an external debugger. 16 17Commands 18~~~~~~~~ 19 20The following commands are available: 21 22.. hxtool-doc:: hmp-commands.hx 23 24.. hxtool-doc:: hmp-commands-info.hx 25 26Integer expressions 27~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 28 29The monitor understands integers expressions for every integer argument. 30You can use register names to get the value of specifics CPU registers 31by prefixing them with *$*. 32