The 'Quick Start' section of the userspace emulator documentation is very old and outdated. In particular: - it suggests running x86-on-x86 emulation, which is the least interesting possible use case - it recommends that users download tarballs of guest binaries from the QEMU web page which we no longer provide there
There's nothing salvageable here; delete it all. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> --- I'm open to suggestions that this is being too drastic; the main aim here is to remove references to tar.gz files that we haven't provided for years, as noted by https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1884982 Ideally the whole of docs/user could use a lot of love... docs/user/main.rst | 61 ---------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 61 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/user/main.rst b/docs/user/main.rst index bd99b0fdbe9..49ccae3ecab 100644 --- a/docs/user/main.rst +++ b/docs/user/main.rst @@ -45,67 +45,6 @@ emulator. Linux User space emulator ------------------------- -Quick Start -~~~~~~~~~~~ - -In order to launch a Linux process, QEMU needs the process executable -itself and all the target (x86) dynamic libraries used by it. - -- On x86, you can just try to launch any process by using the native - libraries:: - - qemu-i386 -L / /bin/ls - - ``-L /`` tells that the x86 dynamic linker must be searched with a - ``/`` prefix. - -- 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):: - - qemu-i386 -L / qemu-i386 -L / /bin/ls - -- On non x86 CPUs, you need first to download at least an x86 glibc - (``qemu-runtime-i386-XXX-.tar.gz`` on the QEMU web page). Ensure that - ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH`` is not set:: - - unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH - - Then you can launch the precompiled ``ls`` x86 executable:: - - qemu-i386 tests/i386/ls - - You can look at ``scripts/qemu-binfmt-conf.sh`` so that QEMU is - automatically launched by the Linux kernel when you try to launch x86 - executables. It requires the ``binfmt_misc`` module in the Linux - kernel. - -- The x86 version of QEMU is also included. You can try weird things - such as:: - - qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/qemu-i386 \ - /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/ls-i386 - -Wine launch -~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- Ensure that you have a working QEMU with the x86 glibc distribution - (see previous section). In order to verify it, you must be able to - do:: - - qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/ls-i386 - -- Download the binary x86 Wine install (``qemu-XXX-i386-wine.tar.gz`` - on the QEMU web page). - -- Configure Wine on your account. Look at the provided script - ``/usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/wine-conf.sh``. Your previous - ``${HOME}/.wine`` directory is saved to ``${HOME}/.wine.org``. - -- Then you can try the example ``putty.exe``:: - - qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/wine/bin/wine \ - /usr/local/qemu-i386/wine/c/Program\ Files/putty.exe - Command line options ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 2.20.1
