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QEMU Monitor
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The QEMU monitor is used to give complex commands to the QEMU emulator.
You can use it to:

-  Remove or insert removable media images (such as CD-ROM or
   floppies).

-  Freeze/unfreeze the Virtual Machine (VM) and save or restore its
   state from a disk file.

-  Inspect the VM state without an external debugger.

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  The commands section goes here once it's converted from Texinfo to RST.

Integer expressions
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The monitor understands integers expressions for every integer argument.
You can use register names to get the value of specifics CPU registers
by prefixing them with *$*.