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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:17:09 +0100
From: Oliver Gerlich <olig9@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Batch mode via Scripts for Qemu?
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To: dfeustel@mindspring.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Dave Feustel wrote:
> Is there any way to control Qemu with a script?
> (e.g. 	start Qemu with
> 	 Qemu -S -hda disk.img
> then feed the commands 
> 	loadvm <vm state file>
> 	c
> 	<...>
> 	stop
> 	savevm <vm state file>
> 	q
>  to the monitor console)
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave Feustel

You can redirect the monitor to stdio and then send your commands over 
that connection. IIRC the monitor can also be redirected to a pty - 
maybe that's even better than stdio.

Oliver