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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: I may have found a bug(unlikely) with Qemu-kvm 1.1
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:48:59 +0100
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Veruca Salt <verucasaltuk@hotmail.co.uk> writes:

> We are upgrading, carefully, from 1.0 to 1.1.

Keep going; we're about to release 1.4 ;)

> We welcome the improved AC97 support and the loss of the ehci warning
> message on startup.
>
> I am finding an issue getting through to the monitor however.
> Neither ctrl-alt-shift-2 nor ctrl-alt-2 exposes the monitor.

I never use that one, but it should work.

> I have even tried using the -mon option code examples to force a
> monitor to stdio, but the monitor stubbornly refuses to appear.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

These all work for me:

* Shorthand syntax

    -monitor stdio

* Equivalent longhand

    -chardev stdio,id=mon0 -mon chardev=mon0,mode=readline,default=on

* Same as config file snippet, for use with -readconfig

    [chardev "mon0"]
      backend = "stdio"

    [mon]
      chardev = "mon0"
      mode = "readline"
      default = "on"