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- QEMU README
- ===========
-
-QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
-virtualizer.
-
-QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
-need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
-it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
-and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
-hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
-near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
-capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
-board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
-
-QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
-and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
-architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
-different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
-involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
-
-QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
-by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
-It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
-layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
-It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
-open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
-
-QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
-version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
-
-
-Building
-========
-
-QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
-Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
-of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
-
- mkdir build
- cd build
- ../configure
- make
-
-Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
-
- https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
- https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
- https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32
-
-
-Submitting patches
-==================
-
-The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
-
- git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git
-
-When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
-format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
-qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
-a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
-guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
-
-Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
-the QEMU website
-
- https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
- https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
-
-The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
-
- git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu-web.git
- https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/
-
-A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
-cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
-or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
-requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
-automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
-manually for once.
-
-For installation instructions, please go to
-
- https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish
-
-The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
-
- $ git checkout master -b my-feature
- $ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
- $ git publish
-
-Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
-back to it in the future.
-
-Sending v2:
-
- $ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
- $ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
- $ git publish
-
-Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
-will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
-
-Bug reporting
-=============
-
-The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
-found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
-should be reported via:
-
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
-
-If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
-is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
-the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
-reported via launchpad.
-
-For additional information on bug reporting consult:
-
- https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug
-
-
-Contact
-=======
-
-The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
-main methods being email and IRC
-
- - qemu-devel@nongnu.org
- https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- - #qemu on irc.oftc.net
-
-Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
-found online via the QEMU website:
-
- https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
-
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