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Qemu-KVM monitor tips and tricks
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Tue 30 April 2013

When running KVM guests, the Qemu/KVM monitor is a nice interface to interact with the VM and do specific maintenance tasks on. If you run the KVM guests with VNC, then you can get to this monitor through Ctrl-Alt-2 (and Ctrl-Alt-1 to get back to the VM display). I …