1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu
index 18aeb7f5f0..6a5a6451da 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu
+++ b/scripts/runqemu
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ of the following environment variables (in any order):
     publicvnc - enable a VNC server open to all hosts
     audio - enable audio
     guestagent - enable guest agent communication
+    qmp=<path> - create a QMP socket (defaults to unix:qmp.sock if unspecified)
     [*/]ovmf* - OVMF firmware file or base name for booting with UEFI
   tcpserial=<port> - specify tcp serial port number
   qemuparams=<xyz> - specify custom parameters to QEMU
@@ -221,6 +222,7 @@ class BaseConfig(object):
         self.cleaned = False
         # Files to cleanup after run
         self.cleanup_files = []
+        self.qmp = None
         self.guest_agent = False
         self.guest_agent_sockpath = '/tmp/qga.sock'
 
@@ -536,6 +538,10 @@ to your build configuration.
                 self.qemu_opt_script += ' -vnc :0'
             elif arg == 'guestagent':
                 self.guest_agent = True
+            elif arg == "qmp":
+                self.qmp = "unix:qmp.sock"
+            elif arg.startswith("qmp="):
+                self.qmp = arg[len('qmp='):]
             elif arg.startswith('guestagent-sockpath='):
                 self.guest_agent_sockpath = '%s' % arg[len('guestagent-sockpath='):]
             elif arg.startswith('tcpserial='):
@@ -1406,6 +1412,10 @@ to your build configuration.
             self.qemu_opt += ' -device virtio-serial '
             self.qemu_opt += ' -device virtserialport,chardev=qga0,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0 '
 
+    def setup_qmp(self):
+        if self.qmp:
+            self.qemu_opt += " -qmp %s,server,nowait" % self.qmp
+
     def setup_vga(self):
         if self.nographic == True:
             if self.sdl == True:
@@ -1547,6 +1557,7 @@ to your build configuration.
             self.qemu_opt += " -snapshot"
 
         self.setup_guest_agent()
+        self.setup_qmp()
         self.setup_serial()
         self.setup_vga()