From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GPOc9-00036U-AA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:17:09 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GPOc6-00036I-Uw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:17:08 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GPOc6-00036F-Op for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:17:06 -0400 Received: from [64.233.162.192] (helo=nz-out-0102.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GPOf0-0007Z9-Qd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:20:06 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id n29so1707711nzf for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:17:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7fac565a0609181217m47ce48bbw94eb4944b67e6c19@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:17:05 +0200 From: "Alexey Eremenko" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Poor Qemu documentation for Windows host In-Reply-To: <1158549358.4008.1.camel@vaio> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7fac565a0609172005w355fd473p4ecc3183390bc212@mail.gmail.com> <1158549358.4008.1.camel@vaio> 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 > See also: > http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/ (Documentation section below) Thank you very much. I have found something useful: TAP for Windows - that is - virtual ethernet network driver for Win NT based systems. So basically only those docs were relevant: http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/TapWin32-en.html http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToNetwork-en.html But unfortunately, it comes separately from Qemu package, inside "OpenVPN" software. So my recommendation is to: 1) "get" the TAP driver out of "OpenVPN" package, and 2) put it into Qemu setup, and 3) update user docs with that. I dunno if I will succeed in getting the driver out of OpenVPN, it really depends how far it integrates into Windows... especially if it integrates very deeply into registry this will be mission-impossible. But if it's just few files, then it's doable. alternatively it is possible to just: 1) update the docs, that will say it is included in different package. But while this is accpetable practise in the Linux world, (to have dependencies) this is unacceptable behavior in Windows world. (in Windows, the standard is to have the package be dependent only on the OS itself, and all else dependencies must come in the setup) >Maybe you like to check if QEMU Wiki >http://kidsquid.com/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/QemuOnWindows I have checked this wiki - this stuff is really nooby, so there was really nothing new compared to the "Official End-User documentation of Qemu". ============ Bottom line: if I succeed in case one, this would be best, otherwise (in case 2) it's not-so-good, but better than having poor docs as we have now.