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KVMAutotest CartesianConfigReference KVM monitors
Sets the list of monitors that a VM currently has running. See [ QEMU has two types of monitors:
- The regular, also known as Human monitor, intended for interaction with people (but also very much used by other tools, Autotest inclusive)
- The QMP monitor, a monitor that speaks the QMP protocol.
Usually a VM will have a single monitor, and that will be a regular Human monitor:
monitors = humanmonitor1 main_monitor = humanmonitor1 monitor_type_humanmonitor1 = human monitor_type = human
The monitor type is defined by monitor_type.
Here's a more detailed exaplanation of the configuration snippet above:
monitors = humanmonitor1
The default VM will have only one monitor, named humanmonitor1.
main_monitor = humanmonitor1
The main monitor will also be humanmonitor1. When a test has to talk to a monitor, it usually does so through the main monitor.
monitor_type_humanmonitor1 = human
This configuration sets the specific type of the humanmonitor1 to be human.
monitor_type = human
And finally this configuration sets the default monitor type also to be human.
Suppose you define a new monitor for your VMs:
monitors += ' monitor2'
Unless you also define:
monitor_type_monitor2 = qmp
monitor2 will also be a human monitor.
Note: most tests that interact with the monitor do so through the monitor property of the VM class, and not by evaluating this parameter value. This is usally only done by the VM class.
No other documentation currently references this configuration key.