From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50445) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEt0t-0003hG-JE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 03:25:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEt0p-0005Xa-Jy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 03:25:39 -0500 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:26570) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEt0p-0005Wj-9Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 03:25:35 -0500 References: <81495d39-0026-dba2-10b9-86d7df5babd3@tuxfamily.org> <4a983bfc-442c-c55f-e3eb-9cb58a0d9ba8@redhat.com> From: Yu Ning Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:25:18 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4a983bfc-442c-c55f-e3eb-9cb58a0d9ba8@redhat.com> 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: John Snow , Thomas Huth , qemu-devel , Stefan Weil Cc: Vincent Palatin 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