QEMU/Invocation

QEMU options QEMU is called with the following commands on host systems with x86 processor architecture. http://qemu-buch.de/de/index.php?title=QEMU-KVM-Buch/_Anhang/_Startoptionen_von_QEMU_und_KVM The parameter Disk_image refers to the image of the first IDE hard disk (disk 0). x86 architecture (32-bit): Host ~ $ qemu-system-i386 [options] [disk_image] x86 architecture (64 bit): Host ~ $ qemu-system-x86_64 [options] [disk_image] QEMU was called with 'qemu' before version 1.0. Host ~ $ qemu [options] [disk_image] The kernel-based virtual machine is often called with kvm instead of qemu. This is confusing, because the Native Linux KVM Tool is also invoked like that as well. http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/c/c5/2011-forum-native-linux-kvm-tool.pdf Some distributions call with qemu-system-x86_64 or qemu-kvm. Help -h shows the help Debugging -d item1,... Writes the log file to stderr. The following options are passed with commas to the command like : qemu -d int,cpu use -d help to get a full list. -d out_asm Show generated host assembly code for each compiled Translation-Block (TB) -d in_asm Show input assembly code for each compiled TB -d op Shows micro operations for each compiled TB -d op_opt show micro ops after optimization -d op_ind Show micro ops before indirect lowering -d int Show interrupts/exceptions in short format -d exec Show trace before each executed TB (lots of logs) -d cpu Show CPU registers before entering a TB (lots of logs) -d mmu Log MMU-related activities -d pcall x86 only: show protected mode far calls/returns/exceptions -d cpu_reset show CPU state before CPU resets -d unimp Log unimplemented functionality -d guest_errors Log when the guest OS does something invalid (eg accessing a non-existent register) -d page Dump pages at beginning of user mode emulation -d nochain Do not chain compiled TBs so that "exec" and "cpu" show complete traces Tracing Configure like this : ./configure --enable-trace-backends=simple Run like this : qemu -trace events=/tmp/events ... # your normal QEMU invocation http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Tracing http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/tracing.txt;hb=HEAD