Why is Qemu not in Handbook

Manolis Kiagias sonicy at otenet.gr
Wed Apr 14 19:45:40 UTC 2010


On 14/04/2010 8:55 μ.μ., Adam Vande More wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
This is not the "official" Handbook, but my own patch queue, and yes it
has been in there for too long.
Hopefully I will have a lot more free time in a few weeks, there are
more patches like this that need to get reviewed and committed.


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