How-to-Make-a-Computer-Operating-System: Chapter 2 spelling and how to exit qemu?

Chapter 2 says You can exit the emulator using: <Ctrl-a x>. but the thing inside <> is not rendered because it is not escaped and looks like HTML tag to the markdown renderer so you need to view the raw text to see it otherwise it shows as You can exit the emulator using: ..

Also, what exactly do I need to press to exit qemu? I run the make run command via PuTTY in Windows and it loads fine but I am not able to stop it. I tried pressing Ctrl+A and then X or Ctrl+X and also Ctrl+A+X but it didn’t work. What is this combo supposed to mean?

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Press Ctrl+A, leave it, afterwards press X

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bx1n on Jan 7, 2018

My host is Ubuntu 14.04, VirtualBox version is 4.3.36_Ubuntu. For leave: Press Esc+2, then input quit and press Enter.

robot527 on May 2, 2016

Presing Alt + 2 and then typing quit worked for me. Source. http://serverfault.com/a/730383

marianofino on Mar 13, 2016

hi, i’m having the same issue to quit qemu emulator by using <Ctrl-a x> combination; it does not work. though, using <ctrl+alt+2> to open qemu monitor and typing ‘exit’ works to exit qemu.

googling can give you a lot of references but here is the link that i looked at. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.embedded.yocto.general/3410

kannan83 on Dec 25, 2013

CTRL+ALT x works

yangminz on Oct 28, 2016

Just for reference: in my case adding -serial mon:stdio made CTRL+a x combination work.

furkanmustafa on Aug 11, 2016