From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47402) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFbq1-0000XJ-El for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 03:17:26 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFbpy-0001NP-AN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 03:17:25 -0500 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:59988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFbpy-0001IV-2T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 03:17:22 -0500 References: <81495d39-0026-dba2-10b9-86d7df5babd3@tuxfamily.org> <4a983bfc-442c-c55f-e3eb-9cb58a0d9ba8@redhat.com> From: Yu Ning Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:17:13 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] HAXM is now open source List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini , John Snow , Thomas Huth , qemu-devel , Stefan Weil Cc: Vincent Palatin On 11/15/2017 22:18, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 15/11/2017 09:25, Yu Ning wrote: >> >> On 11/15/2017 3:13, John Snow wrote: >>> On 11/14/2017 06:09 AM, Thomas Huth wrote: >>>> That's great news! I hope this all will help to promote QEMU on Windows >>>> and macOS quite a bit! >>>> >>>> However, during the past months, I noticed a couple of times that users >>>> ask on IRC or the qemu-discuss mailing list how they could accelerate >>>> their QEMU on Windows - and they are running only in TCG mode when you >>>> ask how they start QEMU. So it seems like there is not much knowledge >>>> about "--accel hax" in the public yet. Maybe you could write a nice blog >>>> post for the QEMU blog or something similar that explains how to use >>>> HAXM with QEMU on Windows for the normal users? Or maybe make it more >>>> prominent in the QEMU wiki? (e.g. the main page only mentions KVM and >>>> Xen, but not HAXM) >>> A blog post advertising this new development would be an absolute >>> miracle for linking to people who are just getting started with QEMU on >>> Windows. >>> >>> (It would also be really good for idiots like me, who do not use Windows >>> for anything other than playing video games and sometimes forget that it >>> is capable of doing other things.) >> Thanks for the encouragement. >> >> I think I can start by writing a small section that can be added to an >> existing document, and later expanded to a blog article. But I haven't >> found a suitable place for it on the QEMU wiki. >> >> Does it make sense to add the proposed piece to the QEMU user manual >> (qemu-doc.texi), under the Quick Start section (2.2)? The user manual is >> published on Stefan's website and referred to by qemu.org: >> >> https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html > Unfortunately the "Quick Start" section is quite out of date (it doesn't > even mention KVM!) and is basically a huge list of options. We are in > the process of improving QEMU documentation, so I think a blog post is > preferrable at this stage. > > I see. I'll take the advice. Is there a preferred document format for the QEMU blog, e.g. Markdown? I'll get the content ready by early next week, and then I'll need someone to help me post it.