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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:08:44 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>   
>> Glauber Costa wrote:
>>     
>>> Why don't we provide a mechanism to make a macro out of a sequence of
>>> monitor commands, and let the user assign whatever he wants out of that?
>>>
>>>       
>> Really?  This seems exceedingly complicated to me.
>>
>> Redirecting the kernel output to serial and logging is a considerably better
>> solution.
>>     
> To his specific problem, yes.
>
> But this probably don't work so well on some OSes that are less serial friendly.
> Also, there are valid use cases in which one may want, for example, to pause
> fast if some graphical event happens, which is an extension of what he mentioned
> initially.
>   

Then type "stop" in the monitor and hit enter when you need to.  Or, 
write a simple VNC client using gtk-vnc that can have any sort of crazy 
key sequences you want.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori