Activity log for bug #1884982

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2020-06-24 15:12:39 Mingye Wang bug added bug
2020-06-24 15:14:50 Mingye Wang description The official documentation for the user-space emulator[1] contains many references to binary blobs no longer provided by QEMU.org for download. The parts mentioning them should be rephrased to avoid confusion and instructions for building these components should be provided (maybe as a reference to the LFS book with some scripts). The specific parts are: * qemu-XXX-i386-wine.tar.gz, a wine build under the prefix /wine. * qemu-runtime-i386-XXX-.tar.gz, a glibc build. [1]: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/user/main.html In addition, the documentation contains many other instances of inexistent "tar.gz" files, such as in "Network emulation". Most of these are inherited from the days of texi documentation more than 10 years ago, and they are so old that GitHub's blame have become unreliable. Someone really should run `fgrep -r 'tar.gz' doc' on the QEMU source tree. The issue was previously reported as [2], but nobody bother enough to google the filename to find out where the confused user got the idea from. [2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg569174.html The official documentation for the user-space emulator[1] contains many references to binary blobs no longer provided by QEMU.org for download. The parts mentioning them should be rephrased to avoid confusion and instructions for building these components should be provided (maybe as a reference to the LFS book with some scripts, or... cut a deal with some super slim Linux distros). The specific parts are: * qemu-XXX-i386-wine.tar.gz, a wine build under the prefix /wine. * qemu-runtime-i386-XXX-.tar.gz, a glibc build.   [1]: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/user/main.html In addition, the documentation contains many other instances of inexistent "tar.gz" files, such as in "Network emulation". Most of these are inherited from the days of texi documentation more than 10 years ago, and they are so old that GitHub's blame have become unreliable. Someone really should run `fgrep -r 'tar.gz' doc' on the QEMU source tree. The issue was previously reported as [2], but nobody bother enough to google the filename to find out where the confused user got the idea from.   [2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg569174.html
2020-11-22 00:03:17 Peter Maydell qemu: status New In Progress
2021-08-25 07:39:47 Thomas Huth tags documentation documentation net
2021-08-25 07:40:17 Thomas Huth qemu: status In Progress Expired
2021-08-25 07:40:18 Thomas Huth bug watch added https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/560