qemu guest automation

Question

I\'ve not been able to find any documentation stating the existence of an API that can be used to automate things inside of a qemu guest.

For example, I would like to la

Answer 1

The QEMU Monitor can interact with guest systems to a limited extent using it's own console. This includes reading registers, controlling the mouse/keyboard, and getting screen dumps. There is a QEMU Monitor Protocol (QMP) that let's you pass JSON commands to and read values from the guest system.