Re: [Qemu-discuss] How to run qemu with -nographic and -monitor but still be able to send Ctrl+C to the guest?

[Thomas Huth]

On 10.04.2018 16:06, Ciro Santilli wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 6:27 AM, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 10.04.2018 02:10, Ciro Santilli wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On 08.04.2018 12:39, Ciro Santilli wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>> Is there a way to both keep my `Ctrl-C` and `-monitor` working with
>>>>> `-nographic`?
>>>>>
>>>>> Full QEMU command:
>>>>>
>>>>>     qemu-system-x86_64 -append 'root=/dev/vda console=ttyS0' -kernel
>>>>> 'bzImage' -drive file='rootfs.ext2.qcow2,if=virtio,format=qcow2'
>>>>> -nographic -monitor telnet::45454,server,nowait
>>>>
>>>> I think you need a chardev with signal=off for that. Try something like:
>>>>
>>>> qemu-system-x86_64  -nographic -monitor telnet::45454,server,nowait \
>>>>   -chardev stdio,id=s1,signal=off \
>>>>   -serial none -device isa-serial,chardev=s1
>>>>
>>>
>>> I tried that and Ctrl+C does get passed to the guest as I wanted.
>>>
>>> However, when I do this, I noticed that I can't pass Ctrl+A X to
>>> easily quit QEMU (I know I can do quit on the monitor).
>>>
>>> Is there a way to also keep Ctrl+A X working, in addition to having
>>> Ctrl+C passed to the guest?
>>
>> Yes, you need to multiplex the stdio output with a HMP monitor:
>>
>> qemu-system-x86_64  -nographic -monitor telnet::45454,server,nowait \
>>      -chardev stdio,id=s1,signal=off,mux=on -serial none \
>>      -device isa-serial,chardev=s1 -mon chardev=s1,mode=readline
>>
> 
> Thanks, that worked perfectly!
> 
> Do you know how to do the same thing for `qemu-system-arm -M
> versatilepb` or `qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt`?

Not sure ... at least versatilepb seems to use an embedded UART, so
-device likely does not work there.

But you could try to simply use "-serial mon:stdio" here. Actually, now
that I remembered that option ... that might even also work on x86
instead of all that complicated stuff that I told you before:

qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -monitor telnet::45454,server,nowait \
                   -serial mon:stdio

(I initially didn't know that you also wanted to have a HMP monitor /
Ctrl-A X here, too, that's why I did not think of this solution in my
first mail)

 HTH,
  Thomas