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QMP: Update README file 

- Fix output description
- Fix command-line usage notes
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Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Introduction
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The QEMU Monitor Protocol (QMP) is a JSON[1] based protocol for QEMU.
The QEMU Monitor Protocol (QMP) allows applications to communicate with
QEMU's Monitor.
By using it applications can control QEMU in reliable and "parseable" way,
QMP also provides asynchronous events support.
QMP is JSON[1] based and has the following features:
- Lightweight, text-based, easy to parse data format
- Asynchronous events support
- Stability
For more information, please, refer to the following files:
o qmp-spec.txt QEMU Monitor Protocol current draft specification
o qmp-spec.txt QEMU Monitor Protocol current specification
o qmp-events.txt List of available asynchronous events
There are also two simple Python scripts available:
o qmp-shell A shell
o vm-info Show some informations about the Virtal Machine
o vm-info Show some information about the Virtual Machine
[1] http://www.json.org
Usage
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To enable QMP, QEMU has to be started in "control mode". This is done
by passing the flag "control" to the "-monitor" command-line option.
To enable QMP, QEMU has to be started in "control mode". There are
two ways of doing this, the simplest one is using the the '-qmp'
command-line option.
For example:
$ qemu [...] -monitor control,tcp:localhost:4444,server
$ qemu [...] -qmp tcp:localhost:4444,server
Will start QEMU in control mode, waiting for a client TCP connection
on localhost port 4444.
To manually test it you can connect with telnet and issue commands:
It is also possible to use the '-mon' command-line option to have
more complex combinations. Please, refer to the QEMU's manpage for
more information.
Simple Testing
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To manually test QMP one can connect with telnet and issue commands:
$ telnet localhost 4444
Trying ::1...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
{"QMP": {"capabilities": []}}
{ "execute": "query-version" }
{"return": "0.11.50"}
{"return": {"qemu": "0.11.50", "package": ""}}
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