From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyER7-00058n-5m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:57:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyER6-00058H-ER for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:57:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyER6-000588-2W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:57:28 -0400 Received: from [83.148.189.24] (helo=mxbackup.griffin.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FyER8-0002Qw-F1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:57:30 -0400 Received: from Agape.local (82.151.249.90.adsl.griffin.net.uk [82.151.249.90]) by mxbackup.griffin.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C7810E8BF5 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:57:26 +0100 (BST) From: Daniel Carrera Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-IW8QDEZNAvqlALyYrs9L" Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:57:25 +0100 Message-Id: <1152133046.8295.85.camel@Agape-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: [Qemu-devel] No useful documentation. Reply-To: daniel.carrera@zmsl.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org --=-IW8QDEZNAvqlALyYrs9L Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I write here because there doesn't seem to be a Bugzilla for qemu and whoever is responsible for the qemu documentation must be here. The documentation is quite worthless. I'm sure you don't like hearing that, but consider that it doesn't actually show the user how get qemu to do what qemu is supposed to di (ie. run a host OS). Ok, it tells me how to create a blank disk image, that's great, but how do I create a disk image with something bootable on it? Sorry, no information on that. I expect that the most typical use case for qemu is running Windows under Linux, so you'd expect to see some documentation for that, right? Nope, none. Sure, there are trouble-shooting tips, but what use are trouble-shooting tips if you can't even get started? I've looked at qemu several times over the past several years. Every time I get excited at the prospect of migrating people to GNU/Linux by letting them run the one windows app they need... and every time I hit a brick wall, as qemu fails to actually do anything useful. Try to take this approach: You are writing to a technically competent user (perhaps a sysadmin) who wants to run Windows under Linux with qemu (perhaps to migrate some of the company computers). He has a Windows install CD, he has qemu installed, and is ready to go. Please write something that this person can use to get Windows running under qemu. Cheers, Daniel. --=20 http://opendocumentfellowship.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on unreasonable men." -- George Bernard Shaw --=-IW8QDEZNAvqlALyYrs9L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBErCe1p0IZBOPRtlQRAoy5AJ4i/HklxaYbN0/OSWiNr+WaBT1TkwCfZKPK yTi4rLGJA6sleS4cyuYPyVM= =7C+y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-IW8QDEZNAvqlALyYrs9L--