QEMU System Emulation Management and Interoperability Guide

This manual contains documents and specifications that are useful for making QEMU interoperate with other software.

Contents:

• Dirty Bitmaps and Incremental Backup
  • Overview
  • Supported Image Formats
  • Dirty Bitmap Names
  • Bitmap Status
  • Basic QMP Usage
  • Bitmap Persistence
  • Transactions
  • Incremental Backups - Push Model
  • Push Backup Errors & Recovery
• D-Bus
  • Introduction
  • Security
  • Guidelines
  • QEMU Interfaces
• D-Bus VMState
  • Introduction
  • Interface
• Live Block Device Operations
  • Disk image backing chain notation
  • Brief overview of live block QMP primitives
  • Interacting with a QEMU instance
  • Example disk image chain
  • A note on points-in-time vs file names
  • Live block streaming — block-stream
  • Live block commit — block-commit
  • Live disk synchronization — drive-mirror and blockdev-mirror
  • Live disk backup — drive-backup and blockdev-backup
• Persistent reservation helper protocol
  • Connection and initialization
  • Command format
• QEMU Guest Agent
  • Synopsis
  • Description
  • Options
  • Files
  • See also
• QEMU Guest Agent Protocol Reference
  • General note concerning the use of guest agent interfaces
  • QEMU guest agent protocol commands and structs
• QEMU QMP Reference Manual
  • Introduction
  • Stability Considerations
  • QMP errors
  • Common data types
  • Socket data types
  • VM run state
  • Cryptography
  • Block devices
  • Character devices
  • Dump guest memory
  • Net devices
  • RDMA device
  • Rocker switch device
  • TPM (trusted platform module) devices
  • Remote desktop
  • Input
  • Migration
  • Transactions
  • Tracing
  • QMP monitor control
  • QMP introspection
  • QEMU Object Model (QOM)
  • Device infrastructure (qdev)
  • Machines
  • Miscellanea
• Vhost-user Protocol
  • Introduction
  • Message Specification
  • Communication
  • Backend program conventions
• Vhost-user-gpu Protocol
  • Introduction
  • Wire format
  • Communication