qemu guest automation

Question

I\'ve not been able to find any documentation stating the existence of an API that can be used to automate things inside of a qemu guest.

For example, I would like to la

Answer 1

You can access guest through net by setting net bridge or using -hostfwd option.

The latter is simpler. It lets you export guest tcp/udp port to host. You can map guest tcp port 22 to host and manage the guest like you manage real remote machines. See this blog Running qemu at background.