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Re: [RFC PATCH] docs/system: add a gentle prompt for the complexity to c


From: Thomas Huth
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] docs/system: add a gentle prompt for the complexity to come
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 06:25:35 +0100
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On 01/03/2021 12.27, Alex Bennée wrote:
We all know the QEMU command line can become a fiendishly complex
beast. Lets gently prepare our user for the horrors to come by
referencing where other example command lines can be found in the
manual.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
---
  docs/system/quickstart.rst | 8 ++++++++
  docs/system/targets.rst    | 2 ++
  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/system/quickstart.rst b/docs/system/quickstart.rst
index 3a3acab5e7..3498c5a29f 100644
--- a/docs/system/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/system/quickstart.rst
@@ -11,3 +11,11 @@ Download and uncompress a PC hard disk image with Linux 
installed (e.g.
     |qemu_system| linux.img
Linux should boot and give you a prompt.
+
+Users should be aware the above example elides a lot of the complexity
+of setting up a VM with x86_64 specific defaults and an assumption the

s/an assumption/assumes/ ?
(I'm not a native speaker, but to me it sounds like a verb is missing here)

+first non switch argument is a PC compatible disk image with a boot
+sector. For non-x86 system where we emulate a broad range of machine
+types the command lines are generally more explicit in defining the
+machine and boot behaviour. You will find more example command lines
+in the :ref:`system-targets-ref` section of the manual.
diff --git a/docs/system/targets.rst b/docs/system/targets.rst
index 560783644d..145cc64551 100644
--- a/docs/system/targets.rst
+++ b/docs/system/targets.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. _system-targets-ref:
+
  QEMU System Emulator Targets
  ============================

With the first sentence fixed:
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>




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