On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > Kashyap Chamarthy <kashyap...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Heya, >> >> After building qemu, I tried to invoke QMP by via telnet: > > Exact version, please. Commit hash if you build from git. > >> Build: >> ========== >> #./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --disable-werror >> --enable-debug ; make -j5 >> ========== >> >> Invoke QMP: >> ========== >> kashyap@qemu$ ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -smp 2 >> -m 2048 /export/images/el6box1.qcow2 -qmp tcp:localhost:4444,server >> --monitor stdio >> QEMU waiting for connection on: tcp:127.0.0.1:4444,server > > I get > > QEMU waiting for connection on: tcp::127.0.0.14444,server > > Note the misplaced colon. Screwed up in commit f6bd5d6e back in > December (I checked). Leads me to believe you're using old code.
Ah, now see, thank you. I did a 'git pull' on my older tree, not sure how it got screwed up, but I can't even seem to run the configure script as of now on that tree. > >> Failed to start VNC server on `localhost:0,to=99': error parsing to= argument > > This error comes from inet_parse(). Looks like you compiled so that VNC > is the default display. I have no idea why it can't parse that; > explicit "-vnc localhost:0,to=99" works for me. The error is not fatal, > you just don't get a working display. It should not affect the QMP > socket at all. > >> kashyap@qemu$ >> ========== >> >> The moment I tried to connect via telnet from a different terminal, it >> fails this way: >> ========== >> kashyap@~$ telnet localhost 4444 >> Trying 127.0.0.1... >> Connected to localhost. >> Escape character is '^]'. >> Connection closed by foreign host. >> kashyap@~$ >> ========== > > Any output from QEMU when this happens? Nothing specific, just what I noted above. At the moment, QMP works just fine with a new clone. I'll post with further information, if I hit it again. Thanks Markus (and Stefan Hajnoczi) for answering my questions on IRC. > >> Any hints ? I'm sure this worked for few weeks ago. /kashyap