23.7.1. QEMU monitor from guest
Peter Maydell said potentially not possible nicely as of August 2018: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51747744/how-to-run-a-qemu-monitor-command-from-inside-the-guest/51764110#51764110
It is also worth looking into the QEMU Guest Agent tool qemu-gq
that can be enabled with:
./build-buildroot --config 'BR2_PACKAGE_QEMU=y'