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[81.2.115.148]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i5sm12528727wrr.4.2021.07.05.02.55.53 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 05 Jul 2021 02:55:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linaro.org; s=google; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0sd/45pTyRCpyPpkUCatbJOK3VrDsW8ogT/cMj7D1pc=; b=BtBfHv1c2pIjUYj+j2411a20+KK4KbfB4jCDqkSKJ5zzIxboOSmy5VT5Mn3fcfpf4n v3V8MtcH6LGq4sjoE52FsfvNVTuzm+T8dGFvUXueWtHJRoIAP62i7cyedVlrqPJNrFiO W3YgEtAPn2HgvkmRiG1wUA0XY36KVUn57vsE+In5s3WjoEAaBvbcJWRjHhBPcWjn+rSa r6IFDtunGazb/JyyrabTUHynS5YXOoNrs8b+Lsvxby0LVpYMregYvvdORGQ/vBW8CaQf jcdlW0FLPNan54uQGOqqhwd7KNBCM+sPRFmzuC6edX4avZvLgtWZDVwQkBPNxuL+26Ju 8HbQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0sd/45pTyRCpyPpkUCatbJOK3VrDsW8ogT/cMj7D1pc=; b=CvbqtWN5Vm8ajTsZs3gDk6n4RHcrrZ2m6usYaDR+7QQC04jONYY9AbbTzA7sZ4tu8o zs/tued0rab/5nUNvhwDuYhjTliFIeqEoDUd/r2xPAG1LZoR8tbQgwbSQr+8fhtEmBb2 VOs/xGQa0Sudyr+/mlZuyfPdOGeuGXL5tfWgqW+3quSAo5LoFmeufTigdkQyuyaN8iTd M5KnhruJZsUSlAq6c1/X0nPo0J4FYnDrrO1fc+1si0pxey49iHdAS+/pSFbmcZe3oQz0 o67BGY45RVVp5sk8nbOVcyR1T5MUeiskcRXK/lP3ashdABPqgE8QdTPVrfeY6pmlou2i SAew== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531mQ6lr0KapSJs2y1nNBlEr7YcpTo6dFyVA+Sntho4gFNBS7zK6 VYVwskKEefbUJm4mkpSvltAsczanXkLmlQg/ X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyDyJDGy4s2XQOnmr9VEWBbq0J/AIcPoDpiiXz6BKYhsyPG2TYLZv56NP5nK1FMY9d5Rr9ErA== X-Received: by 2002:a05:600c:2047:: with SMTP id p7mr14355615wmg.34.1625478953837; Mon, 05 Jul 2021 02:55:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Maydell To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: [PATCH 5/7] docs: Add some actual About text to about/index.rst Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 10:55:45 +0100 Message-Id: <20210705095547.15790-6-peter.maydell@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20210705095547.15790-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org> References: <20210705095547.15790-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Received-SPF: pass (zohomail.com: domain of gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.51.188.17; envelope-from=qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org; helo=lists.gnu.org; Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::32d; envelope-from=peter.maydell@linaro.org; helo=mail-wm1-x32d.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Markus Armbruster Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" X-ZohoMail-DKIM: pass (identity @linaro.org) X-ZM-MESSAGEID: 1625479227120100001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Add some text to About to act as a brief introduction to the QEMU manual and to make the about page a bit less of an abrupt start to it. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell --- docs/about/index.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/about/index.rst b/docs/about/index.rst index cd44456a6bf..689a9861dc3 100644 --- a/docs/about/index.rst +++ b/docs/about/index.rst @@ -1,6 +1,23 @@ About QEMU =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 +QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. + +QEMU can be used in several different ways. The most common is for +"system emulation", where it provides a virtual model of an +entire machine (CPU, memory and emulated devices) to run a guest OS. +In this mode the CPU may be fully emulated, or it may work with +a hypervisor such as KVM, Xen, Hax or Hypervisor.Framework to +allow the guest to run directly on the host CPU. + +The second supported way to use QEMU is "user mode emulation", +where QEMU can launch processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU. +In this mode the CPU is always emulated. + +QEMU also provides a number of standalone commandline utilities, +such as the `qemu-img` disk image utility that allows you to create, +convert and modify disk images. + .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 =20 --=20 2.20.1