Re: [Qemu-devel] learning qemu code

[Stefan Weil]

Am 05.08.2010 11:41, schrieb chandra shekar:

hi,
i plan to do my under graduate project on qemu so i like to start understanding its code
i came to to that vl.c file contains main function can any one please provide any further
guidance like any materials or papers or any other so that i can proceed understanding the
code,thanks

Hi,

start reading the existing documentation:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Manual

There is documentation which you can build from QEMU sources in
several formats (HTML, PDF and others). A HTML version is here:

http://www.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html
http://www.weilnetz.de/qemu-tech.html

Run QEMU system and user mode emulation for different targets
(x86, mips, powerpc, ...).

QEMU has a lot of different parts (hardware device emulation,
target emulation, code generation for different hosts, configuration,
...). Choose an interesting part. Beside the mailing list, the
documentation links above and perhaps the QEMU wiki, you
will not find any written documentation - only the code.

Be prepared that all written documentation might be invalid -
either because it is too old or because it was never correct.
And it is never complete...

If you detect bugs in the documentation, you can fix them and
send a patch to the mailing list. See

http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere

You can also write documentation yourself in QEMU's wiki.
Perhaps it will help you and others in the future.

Good luck with your project!

Regards
Stefan