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More free form documentation can be found here on the wiki. </p> <mw:tocplace></mw:tocplace> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="How_do_I...">How do I...</span></h2> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="For_users">For users</span></h3> <p><a href="/Category:User_documentation" title="Category:User documentation">All user documentation pages</a> </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/">QEMU Main Documentation</a> (HTML generated from QEMU sources, updated frequently)</li> <li><a href="/Documentation/Networking" title="Documentation/Networking">Set up Networking</a></li> <li><a href="/Documentation/9psetup" title="Documentation/9psetup">Setting up VirtFS (9P Sharing over Virtio) between the guest and host</a></li> <li><a href="/Documentation/CreateSnapshot" title="Documentation/CreateSnapshot">Create a Snapshot</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wiki.edubuntu.org/UbuntuDevelopment/Ports">Ubuntu Development Ports</a> - details on qemu-<arch> usage, chroot set up, system emulation and cross compilation</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Embedded_Handbook/General/Compiling_with_qemu_user_chroot">Compiling with qemu-user chroot</a> - details on tuning binfmt_misc with magic patterns for making alien binaries run from the shell with silent invocation of QEMU</li> <li><a href="/Documentation/vhost-user-ovs-dpdk" title="Documentation/vhost-user-ovs-dpdk">Use vhost-user with OVS/DPDK as backend</a></li> <li><a href="/Documentation/Migration_with_shared_storage" title="Documentation/Migration with shared storage">Set up storage for live migration</a></li> <li><a href="/Features/RemovedFeatures" title="Features/RemovedFeatures">Replacements for removed features</a></li></ul> <p>Building QEMU from source: </p> <ul><li><a href="/Hosts/Linux" title="Hosts/Linux">on Linux hosts</a></li> <li><a href="/Hosts/Mac" title="Hosts/Mac">on macOS hosts</a></li> <li><a href="/Hosts/BSD" title="Hosts/BSD">on BSD hosts</a> (includes info on setting up a BSD VM on a Linux host)</li> <li><a href="/Hosts/W32" title="Hosts/W32">for Windows (natively or cross-built on Linux)</a></li></ul> <p>For users that target for a specific <a href="/Documentation/Platforms" title="Documentation/Platforms">platform</a>: </p> <ul><li><a href="/Documentation/Platforms/ARM" title="Documentation/Platforms/ARM">Running ARM guests on QEMU</a></li> <li><a href="/Documentation/Platforms/POWER" title="Documentation/Platforms/POWER">Running POWER / sPAPR / pseries guests on QEMU</a></li> <li><a href="/Documentation/Platforms/PowerPC" title="Documentation/Platforms/PowerPC">Running PowerPC Macintosh / Linux guests on QEMU</a></li> <li><a href="/Documentation/Platforms/m68k" title="Documentation/Platforms/m68k">Running m68k Macintosh / Linux guests on QEMU</a></li> <li><a href="/Documentation/Platforms/SPARC" title="Documentation/Platforms/SPARC">Running SPARC guests on QEMU</a></li> <li><a href="/Documentation/Platforms/Alpha" title="Documentation/Platforms/Alpha">Running ALPHA guests on QEMU</a></li> <li><a href="/Documentation/Platforms/OpenRISC" title="Documentation/Platforms/OpenRISC">Running OpenRISC guests on QEMU</a></li> <li><a href="/Documentation/Platforms/RISCV" title="Documentation/Platforms/RISCV">Running RISC-V guests on QEMU</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_mips_qemu.php">Debian on an emulated MIPS(EL) machine</a> based upon some Debian Linux host</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Windows_XP">Windows XP on QEMU-x86</a> based upon some Linux host (brief but good hints on the guest set up)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Windows2000">Windows 2000 on QEMU-x86</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/FreeDOS">FreeDos on QEMU-x86</a> based upon some Linux host (concentrates on host details)</li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="For_developers">For developers</span></h3> <ul><li><a href="/Documentation/GettingStartedDevelopers" title="Documentation/GettingStartedDevelopers">Get started as a QEMU developer</a></li> <li><a href="/Documentation/Debugging" title="Documentation/Debugging">Debug QEMU</a></li> <li>There is a "developer's guide" in docs/devel, though it has significant gaps. 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