On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Onkar Mahajan <kern.devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have following command line options to qemu-kvm ( apart from others > - irrelevant here !! ) > > -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/vm00-SMP.monitor,server,nowait > -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control > > How do I now start the qemu-kvm monitor control session ?? It looks like you're using libvirt. Here are two methods of getting at the QEMU monitor through libvirt: http://blog.vmsplice.net/2011/03/how-to-access-qemu-monitor-through.html Basically, libvirt is already connected to the vm00-SMP.monitor UNIX domain socket. You need to either use the qemu-monitor-command virsh command or you need to stop libvirtd and connect to the socket manually (e.g. using netcat). Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html