QEMU README
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QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
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QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
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The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
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The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
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The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
-- End
Sergio Andres Gomez Del Real
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This file begins tracking the files that will be the code base for HVF support in QEMU. This code base is part of Google's QEMU version of their Android emulator, and can be found at https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/qemu/+/emu-master-dev This code is based on Veertu Inc's vdhh (Veertu Desktop Hosted Hypervisor), found at https://github.com/veertuinc/vdhh . Everything is appropriately licensed under GPL v2-or-later, except for the code inside x86_task.c and x86_task.h, which, deriving from KVM (the Linux kernel), is licensed GPL v2-only. This code base already implements a very great deal of functionality, although Google's version removed from Vertuu's the support for APIC page and hyperv-related stuff. According to the Android Emulator Release Notes, Revision 26.1.3 (August 2017), "Hypervisor.framework is now enabled by default on macOS for 32-bit x86 images to improve performance and macOS compatibility", although we better use with caution for, as the same Revision warns us, "If you experience issues with it specifically, please file a bug report...". The code hasn't seen much update in the last 5 months, so I think that we can further develop the code with occasional visiting Google's repository to see if there has been any update. On top of Google's code, the following changes were made: - add code to the configure script to support the --enable-hvf argument. If the OS is Darwin, it checks for presence of HVF in the system. The patch also adds strings related to HVF in the file qemu-options.hx. QEMU will only support the modern syntax style '-M accel=hvf' no enable hvf; the legacy '-enable-hvf' will not be supported. - fix styling issues - add glue code to cpus.c - move HVFX86EmulatorState field to CPUX86State, changing the the emulation functions to have a parameter with signature 'CPUX86State *' instead of 'CPUState *' so we don't have to get the 'env'. Signed-off-by:Sergio Andres Gomez Del Real <Sergio.G.DelReal@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20170913090522.4022-2-Sergio.G.DelReal@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20170913090522.4022-3-Sergio.G.DelReal@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20170913090522.4022-5-Sergio.G.DelReal@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20170913090522.4022-6-Sergio.G.DelReal@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20170905035457.3753-7-Sergio.G.DelReal@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: