From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: peter.maydell@linaro.org
Cc: "John Snow" <jsnow@redhat.com>, "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: [PULL v2 01/15] docs/system: add a gentle prompt for the complexity to come
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:59:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210310160002.11659-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210310160002.11659-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
We all know the QEMU command line can become a fiendishly complex
beast. Lets gently prepare our user for the horrors to come by
referencing where other example command lines can be found in the
manual.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210305092328.31792-3-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
diff --git a/docs/system/quickstart.rst b/docs/system/quickstart.rst
index 3a3acab5e7..681678c86e 100644
--- a/docs/system/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/system/quickstart.rst
@@ -11,3 +11,11 @@ Download and uncompress a PC hard disk image with Linux installed (e.g.
|qemu_system| linux.img
Linux should boot and give you a prompt.
+
+Users should be aware the above example elides a lot of the complexity
+of setting up a VM with x86_64 specific defaults and assumes the
+first non switch argument is a PC compatible disk image with a boot
+sector. For a non-x86 system where we emulate a broad range of machine
+types, the command lines are generally more explicit in defining the
+machine and boot behaviour. You will find more example command lines
+in the :ref:`system-targets-ref` section of the manual.
diff --git a/docs/system/targets.rst b/docs/system/targets.rst
index 75ed1087fd..9dcd95dd84 100644
--- a/docs/system/targets.rst
+++ b/docs/system/targets.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. _system-targets-ref:
+
QEMU System Emulator Targets
============================
--
2.20.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-10 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-10 15:59 [PULL v2 00/15] testing, docs, semihosting move and guest-loader Alex Bennée
2021-03-10 15:59 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2021-03-10 15:59 ` [PULL v2 02/15] tests/docker: add a test-tcg for building then running check-tcg Alex Bennée
2021-03-10 15:59 ` [PULL v2 03/15] gitlab-ci.yml: Allow custom # of parallel linkers Alex Bennée
2021-03-10 15:59 ` [PULL v2 04/15] gitlab-ci.yml: Add jobs to test CFI flags Alex Bennée
2021-03-22 13:39 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-03-22 14:06 ` Alex Bennée
2021-03-22 14:08 ` Daniele Buono
2021-03-10 15:59 ` [PULL v2 05/15] tests/docker: Use --arch-only when building Debian cross image Alex Bennée
2021-03-10 15:59 ` [PULL v2 06/15] .editorconfig: update the automatic mode setting for Emacs Alex Bennée
2021-03-10 15:59 ` [PULL v2 07/15] hw/board: promote fdt from ARM VirtMachineState to MachineState Alex Bennée
2021-03-10 15:59 ` [PULL v2 08/15] hw/riscv: migrate fdt field to generic MachineState Alex Bennée
2021-03-10 15:59 ` [PULL v2 09/15] device_tree: add qemu_fdt_setprop_string_array helper Alex Bennée
2021-03-10 15:59 ` [PULL v2 10/15] hw/core: implement a guest-loader to support static hypervisor guests Alex Bennée
2021-03-10 15:59 ` [PULL v2 11/15] docs: move generic-loader documentation into the main manual Alex Bennée
2021-03-10 15:59 ` [PULL v2 12/15] docs: add some documentation for the guest-loader Alex Bennée
2021-03-10 16:00 ` [PULL v2 13/15] tests/avocado: add boot_xen tests Alex Bennée
2021-03-10 16:00 ` [PULL v2 14/15] semihosting: Move include/hw/semihosting/ -> include/semihosting/ Alex Bennée
2021-03-10 16:00 ` [PULL v2 15/15] semihosting: Move hw/semihosting/ -> semihosting/ Alex Bennée
2021-03-11 18:55 ` [PULL v2 00/15] testing, docs, semihosting move and guest-loader Peter Maydell
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