[Qemu-discuss] Qemu tcp server option not working.

[Supriti Singh]

Hello,

I installed qemu on windows 8.1 from this link http://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/ and the package is "qemu-20121204-w64.exe".

I used this command:

qemu-system-x86-64 -serial tcp:localhost:20711,server -pflash="path to the image".

I expect qemu process to wait for a listening process before doing anything because of "server" option. But it does not wait. The monitor is started right away. Also, if I try to do telnet on 20711, I expected some serial output. But I don't see any thing.

I have tried the same setup on my other windows 8.1 with same version of qemu and it worked there. But I don't know why it does not work here.

Thanks,

Supriti