Documentation

Startup

• QEMU crash course
• 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

• Set up Networking
• Setting up VirtFS (9P Sharing over Virtio) between the guest and host
• Create a Snapshot

for users that target for a specific platform

• Debian on an emulated ARM machine based upon some Debian Linux host (see here for the probably most current images matching this HowTo)
• Debian on an emulated MIPS(EL) machine based upon some Debian Linux host
• Debian on an emulated SPARC 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)
• FreeDos on QEMU-x86 based upon some Linux host (concentrates on host details)

for developers

• Debug QEMU
• Getting Started for Developers

User Documentation

• QEMU Emulator User Documentation (HTML generated from QEMU sources, from 2010-07-11 revision shortly before QEMU 0.13.0 release)
• Older version of the above (from QEMU 0.12.0 release)
• QEMU Accelerator User Documentation (KQEMU, obsolete)
• QEMU Official OS Support List (includes images)

Technical Documentation

• QEMU Internals (HTML generated from QEMU sources)
• QEMU, a Fast and Portable Dynamic Translator, USENIX 2005 Annual Technical Conference, FREENIX Track (NB: dyngen is obsolete and has been replaced by TCG)
• The QCOW Image Format
• Hardware Manuals
• Instruction Set Manuals (Assembly Language)