Re: [Qemu-devel] Attitute and Predisposition of the List & newbie documets

[Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay@softlog.com.au>]

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Thomas Munn wrote:

> While I am not among those who are enlightened enought to talk about 
> opcodes and their proper optimization, I do have a few observations to 
> make, having watched this list for 2 months.
>  
> 1.  People really don't like newcomers on this list.

As a newbie from a few weeks ago, that is *not* my experience, people 
have been quite helpful.


> 3.  QEMU is rather DIFFICULT to use.  I have been a UNIX admin for 10 
> years.

Well I haven't, and I managed fine. I would venture to say that qemu is 
*not* for casual users at the moment, its in heavy dev and prone to 
breaking :(

> 4.  I am compiling a list of my difficulties, and will be writing 
> documentation to help people setting qemu for the first time.  The 
> existing documentation simply does not cover in high detail how to get 
> qemu working.  For example, I found it very confusing on what 
> qemu-fast is for.  A simple "QEMU-FAST ONLY works with linux at this 
> time.  You must install a working GUEST image, apply the appropriate 
> patch to the GUEST kernel, and then run qemu-fast.  DO NOT TRY to use 
> QEMU-FAST otherwise.  It will simply segfault!

Thats great - thanks, gotta admit I spent a long time trying to get 
qemu-fast working before I realised it was the guest that was patched, 
not the host :)



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