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Can I manage a QEMU guest from the host's CLI? I'm coming from Xen and I liked the xm command. I'd like to shutdown the guest, attach PCI devices to it and so on. Is there a way?

There's the QEMU monitor, but I'd really like to have a "scriptable" solution.

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Have a look at libvirt. – Steven Monday Jan 24 at 23:00
Libvirt is good, but it's really a little too bloated for my needs. – Daniel Jan 25 at 7:55
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Qemu's QMP is probably what you're looking for, but I am not aware of any tools that interface with it yet. You would have to write a script (or family of scripts) that opens the socket and sends appropriate messages to QEMU.

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Hmm, apparently, QMP is not yet stable. – Daniel Jan 24 at 22:41
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Most of QEMU isn't stable yet :-) – voretaq7♦ Jan 24 at 22:42
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any VM management solution out there is based on libvirt nowadays, so virsh is the way to go. You don't have to install virt-manager, which drags along a lot of GUI deps

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