The attached patch cleans up output we read from the qemu monitor. This is a simplified form of a patch I posted awhile ago. From the patch: /* The monitor doesn't dump clean output after we have written to * it. Every character we write dumps a bunch of useless stuff, * so the result looks like "cXcoXcomXcommXcommaXcommanXcommand" * Try to throw away everything before the first full command * occurence, and inbetween the command and the newline starting * the response */ This extra output makes our qemu log files _huge_ if doing things like polling disk/net stats, and prevents us from returning any useful error message printed from the monitor (say for media/disk eject, disk/net stats, etc). I've been running with this patch for a while and haven't hit any issues. Thanks, Cole