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[PATCH] docs/user: Remove outdated 'Quick Start' section
From: |
Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
[PATCH] docs/user: Remove outdated 'Quick Start' section |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:01:31 +0000 |
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very old and outdated.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.maydell@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
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