On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 08.04.2018 12:39, Ciro Santilli wrote: >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49716931/how-to-run-qemu-with-nographic-and-monitor-but-still-be-able-to-send-ctrlc-to >> >> I have just found out that if you run QEMU with `-monitor >> telnet::45454,server,nowait -nographic`, then Ctrl-C kills the QEMU VM >> instead of generating SIGINT on the guest: >> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/167165/how-to-pass-ctrl-c-to-the-guest-when-running-qemu-with-nographic/436321#436321 >> >> However, I don't want to remove `-monitor` because it is convenient to >> automate monitor commands, e.g. it allows me to create a helper script >> that does: >> >> echo 'savevm my_snap_id' | telnet localhost 45454 >> >> Is there a way to both keep my `Ctrl-C` and `-monitor` working with >> `-nographic`? >> >> Full QEMU command: >> >> qemu-system-x86_64 -append 'root=/dev/vda console=ttyS0' -kernel >> 'bzImage' -drive file='rootfs.ext2.qcow2,if=virtio,format=qcow2' >> -nographic -monitor telnet::45454,server,nowait > > I think you need a chardev with signal=off for that. Try something like: > > qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -monitor telnet::45454,server,nowait \ > -chardev stdio,id=s1,signal=off \ > -serial none -device isa-serial,chardev=s1 >
I tried that and Ctrl+C does get passed to the guest as I wanted. However, when I do this, I noticed that I can't pass Ctrl+A X to easily quit QEMU (I know I can do quit on the monitor). Is there a way to also keep Ctrl+A X working, in addition to having Ctrl+C passed to the guest? > HTH, > Thomas
