def METHOD_NAME(self):
    if isinstance(self._monitor_address, tuple):
        moncdev = "socket,id=mon,host=%s,port=%s" % (
            self._monitor_address[0],
            self._monitor_address[1])
    else:
        moncdev = 'socket,id=mon,path=%s' % self._monitor_address
    return ['-chardev', moncdev,
            '-mon', 'chardev=mon,mode=control',
            '-display', 'none', '-vga', 'none']