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2012-11-30Documentation: Update image format informationKevin Wolf1-0/+167
Document new and yet undocumented options and image formats. The qemu-img man page contains information only for raw and qcow2 now and references the HTML documentation for a more detailed description of other formats. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2012-11-14qemu: Document GlusterFS block driver usageBharata B Rao1-0/+49
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-11-12nbd: accept URIsPaolo Bonzini1-8/+17
The URI syntax is consistent with the Gluster syntax. Export names are specified in the path, preceded by one or more (otherwise unused) slashes. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-08-09iscsi: Pick default initiator-name based on the name of the VMRonnie Sahlberg1-0/+5
This patch updates the iscsi layer to automatically pick a 'unique' initiator-name based on the name of the vm in case the user has not set an explicit iqn-name to use. Create a new function qemu_get_vm_name() that returns the name of the VM, if specified. This way we can thus create default names to use as the initiator name based on the guest session. If the VM is not named via the '-name' command line argument, the iscsi initiator-name used wiull simply be iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm If a name for the VM was specified with the '-name' option, iscsi will use a default initiatorname of iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm:<name> These names are just the default iscsi initiator name that qemu will generate/use only when the user has not set an explicit initiator name via the commandlines or config files. Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
2012-08-03vnc: disable VNC password authentication (security type 2) when in FIPS modePaul Moore1-3/+5
FIPS 140-2 requires disabling certain ciphers, including DES, which is used by VNC to obscure passwords when they are sent over the network. The solution for FIPS users is to disable the use of VNC password auth when the host system is operating in FIPS compliance mode and the user has specified '-enable-fips' on the QEMU command line. This patch causes QEMU to emit a message to stderr when the host system is running in FIPS mode and a VNC password was specified on the commend line. If the system is not running in FIPS mode, or is running in FIPS mode but VNC password authentication was not requested, QEMU operates normally. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-08-02Support 'help' as a synonym for '?' in command line optionsPeter Maydell1-1/+1
For command line options which permit '?' meaning 'please list the permitted values', add support for 'help' as a synonym, by abstracting the check out into a helper function. This change means that in some cases where we were being lazy in our string parsing, "?junk" will now be rejected as an invalid option rather than being (undocumentedly) treated the same way as "?". Update the documentation to use 'help' rather than '?', since '?' is a shell metacharacter and thus prone to fail confusingly if there is a single character filename in the current working directory and the '?' has not been escaped. It's therefore better to steer users towards 'help', though '?' is retained for backwards compatibility. We do not, however, update the output of the system emulator's -help (or any documentation autogenerated from the qemu-options.hx which is the source of the -help text) because libvirt parses our -help output and will break. At a later date when QEMU provides a better interface so libvirt can avoid having to do this, we can update the -help text too. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-07-17doc: Fix indefinite article an -> a before nouns that begin with 'h'Stefan Weil1-1/+1
Although the rule also allows 'an' for historical reasons, 'a' is more common because 'h' is pronounced. Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-05-14qemu-doc: Use QEMU instead of qemu for product nameStefan Weil1-5/+5
When 'qemu' was used as a product name or as a generic process name, it is now replaced by the official upper case 'QEMU'. v2: Added missing period (hint from Andreas Färber). Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
2012-05-14qemu-doc: Fix executable name in examplesStefan Weil1-35/+36
The executable name qemu was replaced some time ago by qemu-system-i386. Fix all examples accordingly. Some examples will only work with qemu-system-i386 or qemu-system-x86_64 for obvious reasons ("dos.img"). To keep things simple, I did not vary the executable name. Place holders like qemu-system-TARGET were also only used once in the enhanced description for QEMU launches using Wine. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
2012-05-01Drop darwin-userAndreas Färber1-90/+0
It's been orphaned, not compiling for a long time and despite Apple's drop of their Rosetta ppc emulation technology with Mac OS X Lion no one has stepped up to fix it. Testing necessary changes wrt QOM'ification thus is impossible, so we might as well remove it completely. Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2012-04-07Replace Qemu by QEMU in w32 installation path (prefix)Stefan Weil1-3/+3
The official spelling is QEMU. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2012-04-07Replace Qemu by QEMU in user visible documentationStefan Weil1-1/+1
The official spelling is QEMU. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2012-02-09iSCSI: add configuration variables for iSCSIRonnie Sahlberg1-1/+53
This patch adds configuration variables for iSCSI to set initiator-name to use when logging in to the target, which type of header-digest to negotiate with the target and username and password for CHAP authentication. This allows specifying a initiator-name either from the command line -iscsi initiator-name=iqn.2004-01.com.example:test or from a configuration file included with -readconfig [iscsi] initiator-name = iqn.2004-01.com.example:test header-digest = CRC32C|CRC32C-NONE|NONE-CRC32C|NONE user = CHAP username password = CHAP password If you use several different targets, you can also configure this on a per target basis by using a group name: [iscsi "iqn.target.name"] ... The configuration file can be read using -readconfig. Example : qemu-system-i386 -drive file=iscsi://127.0.0.1/iqn.ronnie.test/1 -readconfig iscsi.conf Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-12-14doc: Remove Symbian Virtual PlatformStefan Weil1-23/+0
Commit d396a657baec8c6b7aa0c888746e0e2f78303650 removed the code for SVP, so the documentation needs this update. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-11-18Merge remote-tracking branch 'kwolf/block-stable' into stagingAnthony Liguori1-0/+56
2011-11-18Documentation: Add section about iSCSI LUNS to qemu-docRonnie Sahlberg1-0/+56
Add a new section about using iSCSI LUNs with qemu and provide a short example on how to set up a target and access it using the built-in initiator Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-11-17Fix spelling in documentation and comments (similiar -> similar)Stefan Weil1-2/+2
This bug was detected by codespell. In mips_mipssim.c a grammatical error was fixed, too. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-26Documentation: fix typoBernhard Reutner-Fischer1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-15target-xtensa: update qemu-doc.texiMax Filippov1-0/+55
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-08-05sdl: Add zoom hot keysJan Kiszka1-0/+8
Allow to enlarge or shrink the screen via CTRL-ALT-+/-. In contrast to scaling the window, these controls always preserve the aspect ratio of the current console. CC: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-15doc: Add explanation that -alt-grab and -ctrl-grab affect special keysBrad Hards1-1/+5
Phillip Merensky reported that the special keys (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-f for full screen) did not work correctly if -alt-grab is used. BUG: 696530 Review of ui/sdl.c:sdl_refresh indicates that this is the intended behaviour, so we should update the documentation to match the actual behaviour, as suggested by Phillip in the bug report. Signed-off-by: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2011-02-07Documentation: add Sheepdog disk imagesMORITA Kazutaka1-0/+52
Signed-off-by: MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-01-20Add scripts directoryBlue Swirl1-1/+1
Move build and user scripts into scripts directory. Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-01-09qemu-doc: Spelling fixesStefan Weil1-10/+10
neccessary -> necessary Keberos -> Kerberos emuilated -> emulated transciever -> transceiver emulaton -> emulation inital -> initial MingGW -> MinGW Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-01-09qemu-doc: Add missing blanksStefan Weil1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-01-09qemu-doc: Add missing menu entryStefan Weil1-0/+2
Each @section should have a menu entry and a @node entry. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-01-09qemu-doc: Clean whitespaceStefan Weil1-2/+2
Remove blanks at line endings. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2010-11-02intel-hda: documentation updateGerd Hoffmann1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2010-10-05Add new user mode option -ignore-environmentStefan Weil1-0/+14
An empty environment is sometimes useful in user mode. The new option provides it for linux-user and bsd-user (darwin-user still has no environment related options). The patch also adds the documentation for other environment related options. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
2010-08-30nbd: Introduce NBD named exports.Laurent Vivier1-0/+7
This patch allows to connect Qemu using NBD protocol to an nbd-server using named exports. For instance, if on the host "isoserver", in /etc/nbd-server/config, you have: [generic] [debian-500-ppc-netinst] exportname = /ISO/debian-500-powerpc-netinst.iso [Fedora-10-ppc-netinst] exportname = /ISO/Fedora-10-ppc-netinst.iso You can connect to it, using: qemu -cdrom nbd:isoserver:exportname=debian-500-ppc-netinst qemu -cdrom nbd:isoserver:exportname=Fedora-10-ppc-netinst NOTE: you need at least nbd-server 2.9.18 Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2010-08-10RESEND: Inter-VM shared memory PCI deviceCam Macdonell1-0/+43
resend for bug fix related to removal of irqfd Support an inter-vm shared memory device that maps a shared-memory object as a PCI device in the guest. This patch also supports interrupts between guest by communicating over a unix domain socket. This patch applies to the qemu-kvm repository. -device ivshmem,size=<size in format accepted by -m>[,shm=<shm name>] Interrupts are supported between multiple VMs by using a shared memory server by using a chardev socket. -device ivshmem,size=<size in format accepted by -m>[,shm=<shm name>] [,chardev=<id>][,msi=on][,ioeventfd=on][,vectors=n][,role=peer|master] -chardev socket,path=<path>,id=<id> The shared memory server, sample programs and init scripts are in a git repo here: www.gitorious.org/nahanni Signed-off-by: Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-07-11Documentation: Fix spelling bugsStefan Weil1-2/+2
rewuired -> required ths -> this Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2010-05-29Pre-allocate guest address spacePaul Brook1-1/+4
Allow pre-allocation of the guest virtual address space in usermode emulation. Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
2010-03-18Fix manpage errorsBlue Swirl1-1/+1
Split long unbreakable lines to smaller sections. Spotted by Debian Lintian tool: http://lintian.debian.org/full/pkg-qemu-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#qemu Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2010-02-10Documentation: Enhance documentation (index, keywords)Stefan Weil1-6/+150
* Add some keywords for the concept index. * Add some keywords for the keystroke index. * Mark invalid or unclear documentation with TODO. Is there a better proposal how to do this? * Fix copy+paste error in ColdFire section (options were copied from ARM). * Fix documentation for Wine. * Add placeholders for missing system emulations. * Add placeholders for missing user emulation commands. * Add an appendix with license (to be discussed). * Add an appendix for every type of index which is supported by texinfo. Currently, not all are used, but this might change in the future. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-02-10Documentation: Fix item listStefan Weil1-1/+1
@itemize @minus does not work as expected (the items start with "* -"). A simple @itemize gives a better result. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-02-10Documentation: Add some basic documentation on make targetsStefan Weil1-0/+41
This should help new users to get started. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-02-10Documentation: Use UTF-8 encoding and fix one wrong encodingStefan Weil1-1/+5
At least for Linux distributions UTF-8 is now standard, so the QEMU documentation should use this encoding, too. Even if there was currently only a single special character using ISO-8859-1, this might change in the future. So the texinfo keywords @documentlanguage and @documentencoding now document the language and the encoding. The special character was changed to UTF-8 (it could also have been changed to an x, but the original cross looks really nice if it is displayed correctly). These changes fix the html presentation at http://www.qemu.org/qemu-doc.html#SEC65 (ARM System emulator). Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-02-10Documentation: Add direntry for info formatStefan Weil1-0/+6
update-info-dir maintains an index of all available documentation in info format (the file /usr/share/info/dir). It reads special @direntry tags in info files. This patch (extracted from a larger patch provided by Dirk Ullrich) adds these tags for qemu-doc.info and qemu-tech.info. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-02-10doc: Update mingw cross compile instructionsScott Tsai1-14/+31
The "Cross compilation for Windows with Linux" section of qemu-doc.texi still instructs the user to use 'configure --enable-mingw32' even after the option was removed in Aug 2008: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=cd01b4a312248dd4e12c3d389d1a349cea4015d8 This documentation only change updates the instructions to: * Remove use of '--enable-mingw32' in the configure example * Correct the 'sdl-config' script name * Remove references to i386-mingw32msvc.tar.gz which no longer exists in recent SDL releases * Document the zlib dependency Signed-off-by: Scott Tsai <scottt.tw@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-12-21ARM PBX-A9 memory map tweaksPaul Brook1-2/+11
Add core tile memeory to the RealView PBX-A9 board. Document the memeory maps that are known to work with the qemu bootloader. Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-11-19ARM PBX-A9 board supportPaul Brook1-1/+1
Implement ARM RealView PBX-A9 board support. Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-11-16ARM PB-A8 supportPaul Brook1-3/+4
Add ARM Realview PB-A8 board support. Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-11-13ARM MPCore tweaksPaul Brook1-1/+1
Allow the user to specify the number of cores present on the RealView EB + ARM11MPCore board. Also split into its own config rather than guessing from the CPU name. Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-10-15Documentation: Add missing tags to placeholdersKevin Wolf1-5/+5
Not all placeholders in options descriptions had the @var tag on them. Add the tag so that it's clearly visible that they are placeholders. Patchworks-ID: 35602 Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-09-10Add information w.r.t default GUS IRQ assigmentmalc1-0/+14
2009-09-10Allow to unscale the output window with a Ctrl-Alt-u hotkeymalc1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2009-07-17Userspace guest address offsettingPaul Brook1-1/+5
Re-implement GUEST_BASE support. Offset guest ddress space by default if the guest binary contains regions below the host mmap_min_addr. Implement support for i386, x86-64 and arm hosts. Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-06-06doc: Update information on supported network adapters.Stefan Weil1-2/+2
* There are no ISA PCI network adapters. * MIPS Malta is supported with any PCI network card. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
2009-06-06Use hxtool to generate monitor documentation and C structuresBlue Swirl1-351/+1
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
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