Why is Qemu not in Handbook

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 17:55:26 UTC 2010


On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists at gmail.com> wrote:

> For years I used Qemu to run Windows XP under FreeBSD. It worked fine.
> A few months ago I saw a message that VirtualBox was now working
> correctly under FreeBSD. So I tried to install it and it wouldn't
> build. But that's not the actual topic of my question. In the process
> of trying to install VirtualBox I noticed that Qemu is not mentioned
> in the Handbook. It's not even mentioned under "Other Virtualization
> Options".  So my actual question is:
>
> Why is Qemu not mentioned in the Handbook?
>
> There is already a PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=127923
>
> Even just a mention with a link to http://wiki.freebsd.org/qemu would
> be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>

you mean like this?

http://www.freebsdgr.org/handbook-mine/virtualization-host.html

I don't know why it's not on the official one, IIRC it used to be.

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Adam Vande More


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