On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Stefan Weil s...@weilnetz.de wrote:
Hello,
the QEMU documentation (*texi, docs/*, maybe more files) still
includes lots of examples using the executable name qemu
which is no longer supported.
Even if a future version of QEMU will provide this name again
(maybe as a common entry point for all other executables),
there is no qemu executable today. That's a bit confusing for
new users of QEMU which don't know the history.
I think man pages and html documentation should be as correct
as possible and therefore suggest replacing qemu by
qemu-system-i386 (or qemu-system-x86_64, any other
executable, or randomly selected executables?) in *texi.
When qemu is not used for the name of the executable, it
should be written QEMU.
Should the man page's current name (qemu.1) be changed or
linked to qemu-system-i386 and so on?
The examples in docs/* are less important for end users, so
fixing these is also less important for QEMU 1.1.
Please send suggestions and feedback whether patches for 1.1
seem reasonable or too late for that version.
qemu-system-something is a bit verbose to just represent your qemu
executable of choice.
What about qemu and just have a paragraph at the start of the
documentation that specifies that
qemu is the wildcard for whatever executable/target you picked.
regards
ronnie sahlberg
