Re: [Qemu-devel] HAXM is now open source

[Yu Ning <yu.ning@linux.intel.com>]

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

so I think it's a popular resource among users.

BTW, I assume most Windows users begin their QEMU journey from this page 
(also credit to Stefan):

https://qemu.weilnetz.de/

and I've verified the hax accelerator module is built into the latest 
binaries there (at least the W64 ones).

-Yu