qemu.qmp is a QEMU Monitor Protocol (“QMP”) library written in Python, using asyncio. It is used to send QMP messages to running QEMU emulators. It requires Python 3.8+ and has no mandatory dependencies. This library can be used to communicate with QEMU emulators, the QEMU Guest Agent (QGA), the QEMU Storage Daemon (QSD), or any other utility or application that speaks QMP. This library makes as few assumptions as possible about the actual version or what type of endpoint it will be communicating with; i.e. this library does not contain command definitions and does not seek to be an SDK or a replacement for tools like libvirt or virsh. It is “simply” the protocol (QMP) and not the vocabulary (QAPI). It is up to the library user (you!) to know which commands and arguments you want to send.