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== Startup ==
The QEMU website has a [https://www.qemu.org/documentation/ Documentation page] with pointers to the current actively maintained documentation including rendered versions of the user manual and selection of the developer documentation. More free form documentation can be found here on the wiki.
* [http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html QEMU Emulator User Documentation] (HTML generated from QEMU sources, updated frequently)
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU QEMU documentation] on wikibooks.org
* [http://qemu-buch.de/ QEMU-Buch / QEMU-Book] - a quite versatile book on qemu, provided in German and English (partly as a google translation), its describing e.g. lots of guests and hosts


== How do I... ==
== How do I... ==
''for users''
 
=== For users ===
[[:Category:User documentation|All user documentation pages]]
* [https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/ QEMU Main Documentation] (HTML generated from QEMU sources, updated frequently)
* [[Documentation/Networking|Set up Networking]]
* [[Documentation/Networking|Set up Networking]]
* [[Documentation/9psetup|Setting up VirtFS (9P Sharing over Virtio) between the guest and host]]
* [[Documentation/9psetup|Setting up VirtFS (9P Sharing over Virtio) between the guest and host]]
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* [https://wiki.edubuntu.org/UbuntuDevelopment/Ports Ubuntu Development Ports] - details on qemu-<arch> usage, chroot set up, system emulation and cross compilation
* [https://wiki.edubuntu.org/UbuntuDevelopment/Ports Ubuntu Development Ports] - details on qemu-<arch> usage, chroot set up, system emulation and cross compilation
* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Embedded_Handbook/General/Compiling_with_qemu_user_chroot Compiling with qemu-user chroot] - details on tuning binfmt_misc with magic patterns for making alien binaries run from the shell with silent invocation of QEMU
* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Embedded_Handbook/General/Compiling_with_qemu_user_chroot Compiling with qemu-user chroot] - details on tuning binfmt_misc with magic patterns for making alien binaries run from the shell with silent invocation of QEMU
* [[Documentation/vhost-user-ovs-dpdk|Use vhost-user with OVS/DPDK as backend]]
* [[Documentation/Migration with shared storage|Set up storage for live migration]]
* [[Features/RemovedFeatures|Replacements for removed features]]
Building QEMU from source:
* [[Hosts/Linux|on Linux hosts]]
* [[Hosts/Mac|on macOS hosts]]
* [[Hosts/BSD|on BSD hosts]] (includes info on setting up a BSD VM on a Linux host)
* [[Hosts/W32|for Windows (natively or cross-built on Linux)]]


''for users that target for a specific platform''
For users that target for a specific [[Documentation/Platforms|platform]]:
* [http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_arm_qemu.php Debian on an emulated ARM machine] based upon some Debian Linux host (see here for the probably most current [http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/ images] matching this HowTo)
* [[Documentation/Platforms/ARM|Running ARM guests on QEMU]]
* [[Documentation/Platforms/POWER|Running POWER / sPAPR / pseries guests on QEMU]]
* [[Documentation/Platforms/PowerPC|Running PowerPC Macintosh / Linux guests on QEMU]]
* [[Documentation/Platforms/m68k|Running m68k Macintosh / Linux guests on QEMU]]
* [[Documentation/Platforms/SPARC|Running SPARC guests on QEMU]]
* [[Documentation/Platforms/Alpha|Running ALPHA guests on QEMU]]
* [[Documentation/Platforms/OpenRISC|Running OpenRISC guests on QEMU]]
* [[Documentation/Platforms/RISCV|Running RISC-V guests on QEMU]]
* [http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_mips_qemu.php Debian on an emulated MIPS(EL) machine] based upon some Debian Linux host
* [http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_mips_qemu.php Debian on an emulated MIPS(EL) machine] based upon some Debian Linux host
* [http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_sparc_qemu.php Debian on an emulated SPARC machine] based upon some Debian Linux host
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Windows_XP Windows XP on QEMU-x86] based upon some Linux host (brief but good hints on the guest set up)
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Windows_XP Windows XP on QEMU-x86] based upon some Linux host (brief but good hints on the guest set up)
* [http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Windows2000 Windows 2000 on QEMU-x86]
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/FreeDOS FreeDos on QEMU-x86] based upon some Linux host (concentrates on host details)
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/FreeDOS FreeDos on QEMU-x86] based upon some Linux host (concentrates on host details)
* [http://www.elinux.org/Virtual_Development_Board QEMU in Embedded Linux Development] - Virtual Development Board
* [[POWER|Running POWER / sPAPR / pseries guests on QEMU]]
* [[PowerPC|Running PowerPC Macintosh guests on QEMU]]


''for developers''
=== For developers ===
 
* [[Documentation/GettingStartedDevelopers|Get started as a QEMU developer]]
* [[Documentation/Debugging|Debug QEMU]]
* [[Documentation/Debugging|Debug QEMU]]
* [[Documentation/GettingStartedDevelopers|Getting Started for Developers]]
* There is a "developer's guide" in docs/devel, though it has significant gaps. You can see a rendered version of it [https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/devel/index.html on readthedocs]
* The wiki has a list of [[:Category:Developer documentation|all wiki pages marked as developer documentation]]
 
Note that much of QEMU's internals are documented only in comments in the source code, or not at all.


== Technical Documentation ==
== Technical Documentation ==
* [http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/qcow-image-format.html The QCOW Image Format]
* The [http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=tree;f=docs;hb=master docs/] directory in the QEMU tree contains more user and developer documentation.
* [[Documentation/HardwareManuals|Hardware Manuals]]
* [[Documentation/HardwareManuals|Hardware Manuals]]
* [[Documentation/ISAManuals|Instruction Set Manuals (Assembly Language)]]
* [[Documentation/ISAManuals|Instruction Set Manuals (Assembly Language)]]
* [[Documentation/Platforms/PC|PC Platform]]
* [[Documentation/Platforms/PC|PC Platform]]
* [[Documentation/QemuIoTests|qemu-iotests block layer test suite]]
 
== External Sites ==
 
=== Other efforts ===
 
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU QEMU documentation] on wikibooks.org
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140501153642/http://qemu-buch.de/e/Content QEMU-Buch / QEMU-Book] - A quite versatile book on QEMU, provided in German and English (partly as a google translation), but likely rather outdated nowadays.
 
=== Blogs ===
* [https://www.qemu.org/blog/ Official Blog]
* [http://planet.virt-tools.org/index.html Virt Tools Planet]
* [http://planet.virt-tools.org/index.html Virt Tools Planet]
== All Documentation Pages on Wiki ==
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Latest revision as of 07:28, 9 January 2023

The QEMU website has a Documentation page with pointers to the current actively maintained documentation including rendered versions of the user manual and selection of the developer documentation. More free form documentation can be found here on the wiki.

How do I...

For users

All user documentation pages

Building QEMU from source:

For users that target for a specific platform:

For developers

Note that much of QEMU's internals are documented only in comments in the source code, or not at all.

Technical Documentation

External Sites

Other efforts

Blogs

All Documentation Pages on Wiki

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