From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 14 19:45:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B9A106566B for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:45:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from kane.otenet.gr (kane.otenet.gr [83.235.67.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C82C8FC1C for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:45:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pulstar.local (athedsl-4558361.home.otenet.gr [94.70.90.33]) by kane.otenet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id o3EJjaGC001969; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:45:37 +0300 Message-ID: <4BC61B60.9080605@otenet.gr> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:45:36 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Vande More References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Bob Johnson , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Why is Qemu not in Handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:45:40 -0000 On 14/04/2010 8:55 μ.μ., Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Bob Johnson 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.