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[PATCH 5/7] docs: Add some actual About text to about/index.rst
From: |
Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
[PATCH 5/7] docs: Add some actual About text to about/index.rst |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Jul 2021 10:55:45 +0100 |
Add some text to About to act as a brief introduction to the QEMU
manual and to make the about page a bit less of an abrupt start to
it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
---
docs/about/index.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/about/index.rst b/docs/about/index.rst
index cd44456a6bf..689a9861dc3 100644
--- a/docs/about/index.rst
+++ b/docs/about/index.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,23 @@
About QEMU
==========
+QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.
+
+QEMU can be used in several different ways. The most common is for
+"system emulation", where it provides a virtual model of an
+entire machine (CPU, memory and emulated devices) to run a guest OS.
+In this mode the CPU may be fully emulated, or it may work with
+a hypervisor such as KVM, Xen, Hax or Hypervisor.Framework to
+allow the guest to run directly on the host CPU.
+
+The second supported way to use QEMU is "user mode emulation",
+where QEMU can launch processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU.
+In this mode the CPU is always emulated.
+
+QEMU also provides a number of standalone commandline utilities,
+such as the `qemu-img` disk image utility that allows you to create,
+convert and modify disk images.
+
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
--
2.20.1
- [PATCH 0/7] docs: State QEMU version and license in all HTML footers, Peter Maydell, 2021/07/05
- [PATCH 1/7] docs: Fix documentation Copyright date, Peter Maydell, 2021/07/05
- [PATCH 4/7] docs: Move deprecation, build and license info out of system/, Peter Maydell, 2021/07/05
- [PATCH 5/7] docs: Add some actual About text to about/index.rst,
Peter Maydell <=
- [PATCH 3/7] docs: Remove "Contents:" lines from top-level subsections, Peter Maydell, 2021/07/05
- [PATCH 7/7] docs: Add QEMU version information to HTML footer, Peter Maydell, 2021/07/05
- [PATCH 2/7] docs: Stop calling the top level subsections of our manual 'manuals', Peter Maydell, 2021/07/05
- [PATCH 6/7] docs: Add license note to the HTML page footer, Peter Maydell, 2021/07/05