Documentation

• All documentation pages

Startup

• QEMU Emulator User Documentation (HTML generated from QEMU sources, updated frequently)
• QEMU Guest Agent Protocol Reference (HTML generated from QEMU sources)
• QEMU QMP Reference Manual (HTML generated from QEMU sources)
• QEMU documentation on wikibooks.org
• 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...

For users

All user documentation pages

• Set up Networking
• Setting up VirtFS (9P Sharing over Virtio) between the guest and host
• Create a Snapshot
• Ubuntu Development Ports - details on qemu-<arch> usage, chroot set up, system emulation and cross compilation
• 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
• Use vhost-user with OVS/DPDK as backend
• Set up storage for live migration

Building QEMU from source:

• on Linux hosts
• on macOS hosts
• on BSD hosts (includes info on setting up a BSD VM on a Linux host)
• for Windows (natively or cross-built on Linux)

For users that target for a specific platform:

• Running ARM guests on QEMU
• Running POWER / sPAPR / pseries guests on QEMU
• Running PowerPC Macintosh guests on QEMU
• Running SPARC guests on QEMU
• Running ALPHA guests on QEMU
• Running OpenRISC guests on QEMU
• Debian on an emulated MIPS(EL) machine based upon some Debian Linux host
• Windows XP on QEMU-x86 based upon some Linux host (brief but good hints on the guest set up)
• Windows 2000 on QEMU-x86
• FreeDos on QEMU-x86 based upon some Linux host (concentrates on host details)

For developers

All developer documentation pages

• Debug QEMU
• Get started as a QEMU developer

Technical Documentation

• The docs/ directory in the QEMU tree contains more user and developer documentation.
• Hardware Manuals
• Instruction Set Manuals (Assembly Language)
• PC Platform

Blogs

• Virt Tools Planet