From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyHIS-00009G-NR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:00:44 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyHIR-000091-2w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:00:44 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyHIQ-00008y-Vm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:00:43 -0400 Received: from [64.233.162.203] (helo=nz-out-0102.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FyHIV-000794-71 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:00:47 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 4so1567023nzn for ; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:00:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swanson Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] No useful documentation. Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 17:00:34 -0700 References: <1152133046.8295.85.camel@Agape-desktop> <20060705214643.GB21797@muon.de> <1152136920.8295.126.camel@Agape-desktop> In-Reply-To: <1152136920.8295.126.camel@Agape-desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607051700.35027.mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com> Reply-To: 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 On Wednesday 05 July 2006 15:01, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Yes, but the doc doesn't, for example, explain how you are supposed to > put a bootable image in "file". This is addressed by the excellent > responses from Nathaniel and Rick, and I included it in my proposed > tutorial. > > This is the sort of thing that might be obvious to you in hindsight > (you're very involved in qemu) but won't be to a lot of people who are > technically competent, but don't already know qemu. It doesn't require any involvement to understand, it's just like a PC. You don't buy hard-disks with your operating system and software of choice being pre-installed, you must do it yourself. The same applies to QEMU.