On 15/11/2017 09:25, Yu Ning wrote: > > > On 11/15/2017 3:13, John Snow wrote: >> >> On 11/14/2017 06:09 AM, Thomas Huth wrote: >>> >>> That's great news! I hope this all will help to promote QEMU on Windows >>> and macOS quite a bit! >>> >>> However, during the past months, I noticed a couple of times that users >>> ask on IRC or the qemu-discuss mailing list how they could accelerate >>> their QEMU on Windows - and they are running only in TCG mode when you >>> ask how they start QEMU. So it seems like there is not much knowledge >>> about "--accel hax" in the public yet. Maybe you could write a nice blog >>> post for the QEMU blog or something similar that explains how to use >>> HAXM with QEMU on Windows for the normal users? Or maybe make it more >>> prominent in the QEMU wiki? (e.g. the main page only mentions KVM and >>> Xen, but not HAXM) >> A blog post advertising this new development would be an absolute >> miracle for linking to people who are just getting started with QEMU on >> Windows. >> >> (It would also be really good for idiots like me, who do not use Windows >> for anything other than playing video games and sometimes forget that it >> is capable of doing other things.) > > Thanks for the encouragement. > > I think I can start by writing a small section that can be added to an > existing document, and later expanded to a blog article. But I haven't > found a suitable place for it on the QEMU wiki. > > Does it make sense to add the proposed piece to the QEMU user manual > (qemu-doc.texi), under the Quick Start section (2.2)? The user manual is > published on Stefan's website and referred to by qemu.org: > > https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html
Unfortunately the "Quick Start" section is quite out of date (it doesn't even mention KVM!) and is basically a huge list of options. We are in the process of improving QEMU documentation, so I think a blog post is preferrable at this stage. Thanks, Paolo > so I think it's a popular resource among users. > > BTW, I assume most Windows users begin their QEMU journey from this page > (also credit to Stefan): > > https://qemu.weilnetz.de/ > > and I've verified the hax accelerator module is built into the latest > binaries there (at least the W64 ones). > > -Yu >
