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

["Bochnig, Martin" <mb1x@gmx.com>]

Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> 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.

I can only confirm the latter: Pretty helpful suggestions, comments and 
help.

>> 3.  QEMU is rather DIFFICULT to use.  I have been a UNIX admin for 10 
>> years.
How do you define "UNIX admin" ?  *lol*
> 
> 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.

How to start a terminal window?

   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!

Did you ever visit QEMU's mainpage?
If so, did you read anything?

Martin Bochnig
QEMU newbie
SCSecA Solaris 9
SCNA   Solaris 9, 8
SCSA   Solaris 9, 8
Student of Maths ans BSciIT