Le 11/02/2021 à 18:02, Peter Maydell a écrit : > Laurent: Ping^2 ? Somebody on IRC just now was getting confused by this > ancient documentation and its references to nonexistent tarballs..
Sorry, I didn't see your mail. I agree with the change. Acked-by: Laurent Vivier <lau...@vivier.eu> > -- PMM > > On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 13:58, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: >> >> Ping? Laurent, what's your take on this docs patch? >> >> thanks >> -- PMM >> >> On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 00:01, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> >>> 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 very old and outdated.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