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2542bfd5 08/29/2011 01:47 pm Stefan Weil

Fix spelling in comments and debug messages (recieve -> receive)

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>

7075ba30 08/12/2011 04:31 pm Avi Kivity

memory: correct documentation typos

Noted by Drew Jones.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>

9d3a4736 07/29/2011 04:25 pm Avi Kivity

Add memory API documentation

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>

b84da831 07/21/2011 10:48 pm Michael Roth

qapi: add QAPI code generation documentation

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <>

76f30473 07/08/2011 12:25 pm Gerd Hoffmann

usb: update documentation

Add a paragraph on companion controller mode and a
configuration file which sets it all up for you.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <>

f72e502e 06/14/2011 01:56 pm Gerd Hoffmann

usb: documentation update

Add some more informations to docs/usb2.txt about using usb2 (also usb1)
devices.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <>

23bf93b2 06/07/2011 09:52 pm Markus Armbruster

docs: qdev-device-use.txt has become stale, update it

Document more bus addresses.

Update for bugs fixed.

Describe where exactly the -drive options go.

Update for recent split of qdev ide-drive into ide-{cd,hd},
scsi-disk into scsi-{cd,hd}.

Document scsi-hd's removable property only for usb-storage, because...

94527ead 05/26/2011 12:57 pm Gerd Hoffmann

usb: add ehci adapter

This patch finally merges the EHCI host adapter aka USB 2.0 support.

Based on the ehci bits collected @ git://git.kiszka.org/qemu.git ehci

EHCI has a long out-of-tree history. Project was started by Mark
Burkley, with contributions by Niels de Vos. David S. Ahern continued...

e6a750aa 04/26/2011 03:14 pm Stefan Hajnoczi

docs: Trace events must not expect pointer dereferencing

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>

7b92e5bc 04/26/2011 03:14 pm Lluís

docs/tracing.txt: minor documentation fixes

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>

d54f10bb 04/13/2011 01:06 pm Stefan Hajnoczi

docs: Describe zero data clusters in QED specification

Zero data clusters are a space-efficient way of storing zeroed regions
of the image.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>

65794b43 04/02/2011 03:07 am Robert Relyea

libcacard: add docs

1056c02b 04/02/2011 03:07 am Alon Levy

ccid: add docs

Add documentation for the usb-ccid device and accompanying two card
devices, ccid-card-emulated and ccid-card-passthru.

Signed-off-by: Alon Levy <>

03feae73 03/16/2011 10:56 am Kevin Wolf

Add qcow2 documentation

This adds a description of the qcow2 file format to the docs/ directory.
Besides documenting what's there, which is never wrong, the document should
provide a good basis for the discussion of format extensions (called "qcow3"
in previous discussions)...

0b5538c3 03/07/2011 05:34 pm Stefan Hajnoczi

simpletrace: Thread-safe tracing

Trace events outside the global mutex cannot be used with the simple
trace backend since it is not thread-safe. There is no check to prevent
them being enabled so people sometimes learn this the hard way.

This patch restructures the simple trace backend with a ring buffer...

b48c20f7 03/06/2011 08:11 pm Stefan Hajnoczi

docs: Update stderr and simple backend, add systemtap backend

The following additions to the tracing documentation are included:

1. Move "stderr" backend documentation to top-level and out of "simple"
backend. Include hints on when this backend is useful....

466b5864 02/02/2011 12:50 am Gleb Natapov

Add boot index documentation.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>

320fba2a 01/30/2011 12:52 am Fabien Chouteau

New trace-event backend: stderr

This backend sends trace events to standard error output during the emulation.

Also add a "--list-backends" option to tracetool, so configure script can
display the list of available backends.

Signed-off-by: Fabien Chouteau <>...

a5c062ed 01/24/2011 10:39 pm Stefan Hajnoczi

docs: Document scsi-disk and usb-storage removable parameter

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>

9c046d96 01/17/2011 05:29 pm Marcelo Tosatti

document QEMU<->ACPIBIOS PCI hotplug interface

Document how QEMU communicates with ACPI BIOS for PCI hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <>

65d6dcbd 01/10/2011 02:44 pm Stefan Hajnoczi

docs: Document virtio PCI -device ioeventfd=on|off

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>

e59d688a 12/17/2010 06:05 pm Stefan Hajnoczi

docs: Fix missing carets in QED specification

For some reason the carets ('^') in the QED specification disappeared.
This patch puts them back.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>

71af014f 12/17/2010 05:11 pm Stefan Hajnoczi

docs: Add QED image format specification

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>

cf85cf8e 10/20/2010 07:41 pm Stefan Hajnoczi

trace: Format strings must begin/end with double quotes

Document the restriction that format strings must begin and end with
double quotes. This is for easy parsing since we don't run cpp over
trace-events.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>...

9a85d394 10/09/2010 11:16 am Stefan Hajnoczi

trace: Use portable format strings

It is not portable to use "%ld" for int64_t because int64_t may have
type long on 64-bit platforms and long long on 32-bit platforms. Use
the standard library PRId64 macros to keep format strings portable.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>...

dda5336e 10/05/2010 09:53 pm Stefan Weil

docs: Improve documentation

Fix some inconsistencies (tabs and punctuation)
and try to improve grammar and spelling.

Cc: Juan Quintela <>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <>

d9d33417 09/21/2010 06:00 pm Stefan Hajnoczi

blkverify: Add block driver for verifying I/O

The blkverify block driver makes investigating image format data
corruption much easier. A raw image initialized with the same contents
as the test image (e.g. qcow2 file) must be provided. The raw image
mirrors read/write operations and is used to verify that data read from...

81a97d9d 09/10/2010 12:22 am Stefan Hajnoczi

trace: Add user documentation

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>

b6828931 08/11/2010 12:25 am Cam Macdonell

Device specification for shared memory PCI device

Signed-off-by: Cam Macdonell <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>

f58ae59c 07/27/2010 12:19 am Juan Quintela

Initial documentation for migration

Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>

96560cb3 01/14/2010 01:14 am Markus Armbruster

docs: New qdev-device-use.txt

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>