aracter
  device to use for communication with the shell.</td>
  <td>&lt;device&gt; must be a QEMU device type. See the documentation for '-serial <em>dev</em>' at
  <a href="http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html">http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html</a>
  for a list of device types.

<p>Here are some examples: </p>
<ul>
  <li><code>-shell-serial stdio</code> is identical to <code>-shell</code></li>
  <li><code>-shell-serial tcp::4444,server,nowait</code> lets you communicate with the shell ove