@end itemize
-QEMU can run without an host kernel driver and yet gives acceptable
+QEMU can run without a host kernel driver and yet gives acceptable
performance.
For system emulation, the following hardware targets are supported:
by Tibor "TS" Schütz.
Note that, by default, GUS shares IRQ(7) with parallel ports and so
-qemu must be told to not have parallel ports to have working GUS
+QEMU must be told to not have parallel ports to have working GUS.
@example
qemu-system-i386 dos.img -soundhw gus -parallel none
in a configuration file provided via '-readconfig' or directly on the
command line.
+If the initiator-name is not specified qemu will use a default name
+of 'iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm[:<name>'] where <name> is the name of the
+virtual machine.
+
+
@example
Setting a specific initiator name to use when logging in to the target
-iscsi initiator-name=iqn.qemu.test:my-initiator
Virtual Mouse. This will override the PS/2 mouse emulation when activated.
@item tablet
Pointer device that uses absolute coordinates (like a touchscreen).
-This means qemu is able to report the mouse position without having
+This means QEMU is able to report the mouse position without having
to grab the mouse. Also overrides the PS/2 mouse emulation when activated.
@item disk:@var{file}
Mass storage device based on @var{file} (@pxref{disk_images})
to provide high security. The password can be fairly easily brute-forced by
a client making repeat connections. For this reason, a VNC server using password
authentication should be restricted to only listen on the loopback interface
-or UNIX domain sockets. Password authentication is requested with the @code{password}
-option, and then once QEMU is running the password is set with the monitor. Until
-the monitor is used to set the password all clients will be rejected.
+or UNIX domain sockets. Password authentication is not supported when operating
+in FIPS 140-2 compliance mode as it requires the use of the DES cipher. Password
+authentication is requested with the @code{password} option, and then once QEMU
+is running the password is set with the monitor. Until the monitor is used to
+set the password all clients will be rejected.
@example
qemu-system-i386 [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,password -monitor stdio
QEMU has a primitive support to work with gdb, so that you can do
'Ctrl-C' while the virtual machine is running and inspect its state.
-In order to use gdb, launch qemu with the '-s' option. It will wait for a
+In order to use gdb, launch QEMU with the '-s' option. It will wait for a
gdb connection:
@example
qemu-system-i386 -s -kernel arch/i386/boot/bzImage -hda root-2.4.20.img \
@code{-L /} tells that the x86 dynamic linker must be searched with a
@file{/} prefix.
-@item Since QEMU is also a linux process, you can launch qemu with
-qemu (NOTE: you can only do that if you compiled QEMU from the sources):
+@item Since QEMU is also a linux process, you can launch QEMU with
+QEMU (NOTE: you can only do that if you compiled QEMU from the sources):
@example
qemu-i386 -L / qemu-i386 -L / /bin/ls
@item -s size
Set the x86 stack size in bytes (default=524288)
@item -cpu model
-Select CPU model (-cpu ? for list and additional feature selection)
+Select CPU model (-cpu help for list and additional feature selection)
@item -ignore-environment
Start with an empty environment. Without this option,
the initial environment is a copy of the caller's environment.