On 10/12/2015 11:41 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The README file is usually the first thing consulted when a user
> or developer obtains a copy of the QEMU source. The current QEMU
> README is lacking immediately useful information and so not very
> friendly for first time encounters. It either redirects users to
> qemu-doc.html (which does not exist until they've actually
> compiled QEMU), or the website (which assumes the user has
> convenient internet access at time of reading).
> 
> This fills out the README file as simple quick-start guide on
> the topics of building source, submitting patches, licensing
> and how to contact the QEMU community. It does not intend to be
> comprehensive, instead referring people to an appropriate web
> page to obtain more detailed information. The intent is to give
> users quick guidance to get them going in the right direction.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com>
> ---

> +++ b/README
> @@ -1,3 +1,107 @@
> -Read the documentation in qemu-doc.html or on http://wiki.qemu-project.org
> +         QEMU README
> +      ===========

TAB damage.

>  
> -- QEMU team
> +QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
> +virtualizer.

I might have done s/&/and/ (two instances in the overall document)


> +Building
> +========
> +
> +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

Doesn't this need to be ../configure?

Looks like I missed reviewing before Paolo queued it, so whether these
fixes are squashed in or done as a followup doesn't bother me.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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