QMP-SHELL-WRAP(1)

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💖 QMP-SHELL-WRAP(1) 💖

okay bestie, quick vibe check: this page lives in the QEMU Monitor Protocol Library, and it's the little launcher utility that makes QEMU + qmp-shell happen in literally one command. no cap. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

qmp-shell-wrap — the QEMU + qmp-shell launcher utility, the iconic duo starter pack 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

qmp-shell-wrap [-h] [-H] [-v] [-p] [-l LOGFILE] ...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the tea: this launches QEMU and hooks you up to it with qmp-shell <#qmp-shell> in a single command. One command. That's it. Main character energy fr fr 💅

Your CLI arguments get forwarded straight to qemu, and then a few extra arguments get added on top so that qmp-shell <#qmp-shell> can go ahead and connect to the QEMU instance that just got launched. It's giving "handshake but make it effortless". 🫶

positional arguments:

  • command — the QEMU command line you wanna invoke 🌸

optional arguments:

  • -h, --help — show this help message and exit, the classic 🎀
  • -H, --hmp — use the HMP interface
  • -v, --verbose — verbose mode, aka echo every command sent and received, so you can see everything happening in real time 👀
  • -p, --pretty — pretty-print that JSON, because unformatted JSON is a crime against humanity honestly ✨
  • -l LOGFILE, --logfile LOGFILE — save a log of all QMP messages to PATH 💾

Usage 🌈

Just prepend qmp-shell-wrap to your usual QEMU command line, that's the whole trick:

> qmp-shell-wrap qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35 -m 4096 -display none
Welcome to the QMP low-level shell!
Connected
(QEMU)

look at her go 😭 she's connected.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Refer to qmp-shell(1) <#qmp-shell> for the info on syntax and how to actually operate the qmp-shell utility itself — that's where the deep lore lives 🧚

✨ Author ✨

The QEMU Project authors 💜

2009-2022, QEMU Project

no cap, this page is unknown version and dated Apr 03, 2026 — so like, shoutout to QEMU Monitor Protocol Library for sponsoring this whole read, and shoutout to you for making it to the end. mwah. 💖🎀🦋
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