diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index aa9cc0b584..faa0ffa05b 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -787,6 +787,7 @@ distclean: clean $(call clean-manual,specs) $(call clean-manual,system) $(call clean-manual,tools) + $(call clean-manual,user) for d in $(TARGET_DIRS); do \ rm -rf $$d || exit 1 ; \ done @@ -845,6 +846,7 @@ install-sphinxdocs: sphinxdocs $(call install-manual,specs) $(call install-manual,system) $(call install-manual,tools) + $(call install-manual,user) install-doc: $(DOCS) install-sphinxdocs $(INSTALL_DIR) "$(DESTDIR)$(qemu_docdir)" @@ -1039,7 +1041,8 @@ sphinxdocs: $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/devel/index.html \ $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/interop/index.html \ $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/specs/index.html \ $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/system/index.html \ - $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/tools/index.html + $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/tools/index.html \ + $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/user/index.html # Canned command to build a single manual # Arguments: $1 = manual name, $2 = Sphinx builder ('html' or 'man') @@ -1074,6 +1077,9 @@ $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/system/index.html: $(call manual-deps,system) $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/tools/index.html: $(call manual-deps,tools) $(SRC_PATH)/qemu-img-cmds.hx $(SRC_PATH)/docs/qemu-option-trace.rst.inc $(call build-manual,tools,html) +$(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/user/index.html: $(call manual-deps,user) + $(call build-manual,user,html) + $(call define-manpage-rule,interop,qemu-ga.8) $(call define-manpage-rule,system,qemu-block-drivers.7) diff --git a/docs/index.html.in b/docs/index.html.in index cf61b1cf44..a576ace8a2 100644 --- a/docs/index.html.in +++ b/docs/index.html.in @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
  • System Emulation Guest Hardware Specifications
  • System Emulation User's Guide
  • Tools Guide
  • +
  • User Mode Emulation User's Guide
  • diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index acd604fa8a..376dab2885 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ Welcome to QEMU's documentation! specs/index system/index tools/index + user/index diff --git a/docs/user/conf.py b/docs/user/conf.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4b09aedd45 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/user/conf.py @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- +# +# QEMU documentation build configuration file for the 'user' manual. +# +# This includes the top level conf file and then makes any necessary tweaks. +import sys +import os + +qemu_docdir = os.path.abspath("..") +parent_config = os.path.join(qemu_docdir, "conf.py") +exec(compile(open(parent_config, "rb").read(), parent_config, 'exec')) + +# This slightly misuses the 'description', but is the best way to get +# the manual title to appear in the sidebar. +html_theme_options['description'] = u'User Mode Emulation User''s Guide' diff --git a/docs/user/index.rst b/docs/user/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e030dadf65 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/user/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +.. This is the top level page for the 'user' manual. + + +QEMU User Mode Emulation User's Guide +===================================== + +This manual is the overall guide for users using QEMU +for user-mode emulation. In this mode, QEMU can launch +processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU. + +Contents: + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + main diff --git a/docs/user/main.rst b/docs/user/main.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ca69f7727d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/user/main.rst @@ -0,0 +1,295 @@ +QEMU User space emulator +======================== + +Supported Operating Systems +--------------------------- + +The following OS are supported in user space emulation: + +- Linux (referred as qemu-linux-user) + +- BSD (referred as qemu-bsd-user) + +Features +-------- + +QEMU user space emulation has the following notable features: + +**System call translation:** + QEMU includes a generic system call translator. This means that the + parameters of the system calls can be converted to fix endianness and + 32/64-bit mismatches between hosts and targets. IOCTLs can be + converted too. + +**POSIX signal handling:** + QEMU can redirect to the running program all signals coming from the + host (such as ``SIGALRM``), as well as synthesize signals from + virtual CPU exceptions (for example ``SIGFPE`` when the program + executes a division by zero). + + QEMU relies on the host kernel to emulate most signal system calls, + for example to emulate the signal mask. On Linux, QEMU supports both + normal and real-time signals. + +**Threading:** + On Linux, QEMU can emulate the ``clone`` syscall and create a real + host thread (with a separate virtual CPU) for each emulated thread. + Note that not all targets currently emulate atomic operations + correctly. x86 and ARM use a global lock in order to preserve their + semantics. + +QEMU was conceived so that ultimately it can emulate itself. Although it +is not very useful, it is an important test to show the power of the +emulator. + +Linux User space emulator +------------------------- + +Quick Start +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +In order to launch a Linux process, QEMU needs the process executable +itself and all the target (x86) dynamic libraries used by it. + +- On x86, you can just try to launch any process by using the native + libraries:: + + qemu-i386 -L / /bin/ls + + ``-L /`` tells that the x86 dynamic linker must be searched with a + ``/`` prefix. + +- Since QEMU is also a linux process, you can launch QEMU with QEMU + (NOTE: you can only do that if you compiled QEMU from the sources):: + + qemu-i386 -L / qemu-i386 -L / /bin/ls + +- On non x86 CPUs, you need first to download at least an x86 glibc + (``qemu-runtime-i386-XXX-.tar.gz`` on the QEMU web page). Ensure that + ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH`` is not set:: + + unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH + + Then you can launch the precompiled ``ls`` x86 executable:: + + qemu-i386 tests/i386/ls + + You can look at ``scripts/qemu-binfmt-conf.sh`` so that QEMU is + automatically launched by the Linux kernel when you try to launch x86 + executables. It requires the ``binfmt_misc`` module in the Linux + kernel. + +- The x86 version of QEMU is also included. You can try weird things + such as:: + + qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/qemu-i386 \ + /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/ls-i386 + +Wine launch +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Ensure that you have a working QEMU with the x86 glibc distribution + (see previous section). In order to verify it, you must be able to + do:: + + qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/ls-i386 + +- Download the binary x86 Wine install (``qemu-XXX-i386-wine.tar.gz`` + on the QEMU web page). + +- Configure Wine on your account. Look at the provided script + ``/usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/wine-conf.sh``. Your previous + ``${HOME}/.wine`` directory is saved to ``${HOME}/.wine.org``. + +- Then you can try the example ``putty.exe``:: + + qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/wine/bin/wine \ + /usr/local/qemu-i386/wine/c/Program\ Files/putty.exe + +Command line options +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + qemu-i386 [-h] [-d] [-L path] [-s size] [-cpu model] [-g port] [-B offset] [-R size] program [arguments...] + +``-h`` + Print the help + +``-L path`` + Set the x86 elf interpreter prefix (default=/usr/local/qemu-i386) + +``-s size`` + Set the x86 stack size in bytes (default=524288) + +``-cpu model`` + Select CPU model (-cpu help for list and additional feature + selection) + +``-E var=value`` + Set environment var to value. + +``-U var`` + Remove var from the environment. + +``-B offset`` + Offset guest address by the specified number of bytes. This is useful + when the address region required by guest applications is reserved on + the host. This option is currently only supported on some hosts. + +``-R size`` + Pre-allocate a guest virtual address space of the given size (in + bytes). \"G\", \"M\", and \"k\" suffixes may be used when specifying + the size. + +Debug options: + +``-d item1,...`` + Activate logging of the specified items (use '-d help' for a list of + log items) + +``-p pagesize`` + Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes + +``-g port`` + Wait gdb connection to port + +``-singlestep`` + Run the emulation in single step mode. + +Environment variables: + +QEMU_STRACE + Print system calls and arguments similar to the 'strace' program + (NOTE: the actual 'strace' program will not work because the user + space emulator hasn't implemented ptrace). At the moment this is + incomplete. All system calls that don't have a specific argument + format are printed with information for six arguments. Many + flag-style arguments don't have decoders and will show up as numbers. + +Other binaries +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +user mode (Alpha) +``qemu-alpha`` TODO. + +user mode (ARM) +``qemu-armeb`` TODO. + +user mode (ARM) +``qemu-arm`` is also capable of running ARM \"Angel\" semihosted ELF +binaries (as implemented by the arm-elf and arm-eabi Newlib/GDB +configurations), and arm-uclinux bFLT format binaries. + +user mode (ColdFire) +user mode (M68K) +``qemu-m68k`` is capable of running semihosted binaries using the BDM +(m5xxx-ram-hosted.ld) or m68k-sim (sim.ld) syscall interfaces, and +coldfire uClinux bFLT format binaries. + +The binary format is detected automatically. + +user mode (Cris) +``qemu-cris`` TODO. + +user mode (i386) +``qemu-i386`` TODO. ``qemu-x86_64`` TODO. + +user mode (Microblaze) +``qemu-microblaze`` TODO. + +user mode (MIPS) +``qemu-mips`` executes 32-bit big endian MIPS binaries (MIPS O32 ABI). + +``qemu-mipsel`` executes 32-bit little endian MIPS binaries (MIPS O32 +ABI). + +``qemu-mips64`` executes 64-bit big endian MIPS binaries (MIPS N64 ABI). + +``qemu-mips64el`` executes 64-bit little endian MIPS binaries (MIPS N64 +ABI). + +``qemu-mipsn32`` executes 32-bit big endian MIPS binaries (MIPS N32 +ABI). + +``qemu-mipsn32el`` executes 32-bit little endian MIPS binaries (MIPS N32 +ABI). + +user mode (NiosII) +``qemu-nios2`` TODO. + +user mode (PowerPC) +``qemu-ppc64abi32`` TODO. ``qemu-ppc64`` TODO. ``qemu-ppc`` TODO. + +user mode (SH4) +``qemu-sh4eb`` TODO. ``qemu-sh4`` TODO. + +user mode (SPARC) +``qemu-sparc`` can execute Sparc32 binaries (Sparc32 CPU, 32 bit ABI). + +``qemu-sparc32plus`` can execute Sparc32 and SPARC32PLUS binaries +(Sparc64 CPU, 32 bit ABI). + +``qemu-sparc64`` can execute some Sparc64 (Sparc64 CPU, 64 bit ABI) and +SPARC32PLUS binaries (Sparc64 CPU, 32 bit ABI). + +BSD User space emulator +----------------------- + +BSD Status +~~~~~~~~~~ + +- target Sparc64 on Sparc64: Some trivial programs work. + +Quick Start +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +In order to launch a BSD process, QEMU needs the process executable +itself and all the target dynamic libraries used by it. + +- On Sparc64, you can just try to launch any process by using the + native libraries:: + + qemu-sparc64 /bin/ls + +Command line options +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + qemu-sparc64 [-h] [-d] [-L path] [-s size] [-bsd type] program [arguments...] + +``-h`` + Print the help + +``-L path`` + Set the library root path (default=/) + +``-s size`` + Set the stack size in bytes (default=524288) + +``-ignore-environment`` + Start with an empty environment. Without this option, the initial + environment is a copy of the caller's environment. + +``-E var=value`` + Set environment var to value. + +``-U var`` + Remove var from the environment. + +``-bsd type`` + Set the type of the emulated BSD Operating system. Valid values are + FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD (default). + +Debug options: + +``-d item1,...`` + Activate logging of the specified items (use '-d help' for a list of + log items) + +``-p pagesize`` + Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes + +``-singlestep`` + Run the emulation in single step mode. diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index 33b9597b1d..6636816b85 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ * Introduction:: * QEMU PC System emulator:: * QEMU System emulator for non PC targets:: -* QEMU User space emulator:: * System requirements:: * Security:: * Implementation notes:: @@ -2487,342 +2486,6 @@ so should only be used with trusted guest OS. @c man end -@node QEMU User space emulator -@chapter QEMU User space emulator - -@menu -* Supported Operating Systems :: -* Features:: -* Linux User space emulator:: -* BSD User space emulator :: -@end menu - -@node Supported Operating Systems -@section Supported Operating Systems - -The following OS are supported in user space emulation: - -@itemize @minus -@item -Linux (referred as qemu-linux-user) -@item -BSD (referred as qemu-bsd-user) -@end itemize - -@node Features -@section Features - -QEMU user space emulation has the following notable features: - -@table @strong -@item System call translation: -QEMU includes a generic system call translator. This means that -the parameters of the system calls can be converted to fix -endianness and 32/64-bit mismatches between hosts and targets. -IOCTLs can be converted too. - -@item POSIX signal handling: -QEMU can redirect to the running program all signals coming from -the host (such as @code{SIGALRM}), as well as synthesize signals from -virtual CPU exceptions (for example @code{SIGFPE} when the program -executes a division by zero). - -QEMU relies on the host kernel to emulate most signal system -calls, for example to emulate the signal mask. On Linux, QEMU -supports both normal and real-time signals. - -@item Threading: -On Linux, QEMU can emulate the @code{clone} syscall and create a real -host thread (with a separate virtual CPU) for each emulated thread. -Note that not all targets currently emulate atomic operations correctly. -x86 and ARM use a global lock in order to preserve their semantics. -@end table - -QEMU was conceived so that ultimately it can emulate itself. Although -it is not very useful, it is an important test to show the power of the -emulator. - -@node Linux User space emulator -@section Linux User space emulator - -@menu -* Quick Start:: -* Wine launch:: -* Command line options:: -* Other binaries:: -@end menu - -@node Quick Start -@subsection Quick Start - -In order to launch a Linux process, QEMU needs the process executable -itself and all the target (x86) dynamic libraries used by it. - -@itemize - -@item On x86, you can just try to launch any process by using the native -libraries: - -@example -qemu-i386 -L / /bin/ls -@end example - -@code{-L /} tells that the x86 dynamic linker must be searched with a -@file{/} prefix. - -@item Since QEMU is also a linux process, you can launch QEMU with -QEMU (NOTE: you can only do that if you compiled QEMU from the sources): - -@example -qemu-i386 -L / qemu-i386 -L / /bin/ls -@end example - -@item On non x86 CPUs, you need first to download at least an x86 glibc -(@file{qemu-runtime-i386-XXX-.tar.gz} on the QEMU web page). Ensure that -@code{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} is not set: - -@example -unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH -@end example - -Then you can launch the precompiled @file{ls} x86 executable: - -@example -qemu-i386 tests/i386/ls -@end example -You can look at @file{scripts/qemu-binfmt-conf.sh} so that -QEMU is automatically launched by the Linux kernel when you try to -launch x86 executables. It requires the @code{binfmt_misc} module in the -Linux kernel. - -@item The x86 version of QEMU is also included. You can try weird things such as: -@example -qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/qemu-i386 \ - /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/ls-i386 -@end example - -@end itemize - -@node Wine launch -@subsection Wine launch - -@itemize - -@item Ensure that you have a working QEMU with the x86 glibc -distribution (see previous section). In order to verify it, you must be -able to do: - -@example -qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/ls-i386 -@end example - -@item Download the binary x86 Wine install -(@file{qemu-XXX-i386-wine.tar.gz} on the QEMU web page). - -@item Configure Wine on your account. Look at the provided script -@file{/usr/local/qemu-i386/@/bin/wine-conf.sh}. Your previous -@code{$@{HOME@}/.wine} directory is saved to @code{$@{HOME@}/.wine.org}. - -@item Then you can try the example @file{putty.exe}: - -@example -qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/wine/bin/wine \ - /usr/local/qemu-i386/wine/c/Program\ Files/putty.exe -@end example - -@end itemize - -@node Command line options -@subsection Command line options - -@example -@command{qemu-i386} [@option{-h]} [@option{-d]} [@option{-L} @var{path}] [@option{-s} @var{size}] [@option{-cpu} @var{model}] [@option{-g} @var{port}] [@option{-B} @var{offset}] [@option{-R} @var{size}] @var{program} [@var{arguments}...] -@end example - -@table @option -@item -h -Print the help -@item -L path -Set the x86 elf interpreter prefix (default=/usr/local/qemu-i386) -@item -s size -Set the x86 stack size in bytes (default=524288) -@item -cpu model -Select CPU model (-cpu help for list and additional feature selection) -@item -E @var{var}=@var{value} -Set environment @var{var} to @var{value}. -@item -U @var{var} -Remove @var{var} from the environment. -@item -B offset -Offset guest address by the specified number of bytes. This is useful when -the address region required by guest applications is reserved on the host. -This option is currently only supported on some hosts. -@item -R size -Pre-allocate a guest virtual address space of the given size (in bytes). -"G", "M", and "k" suffixes may be used when specifying the size. -@end table - -Debug options: - -@table @option -@item -d item1,... -Activate logging of the specified items (use '-d help' for a list of log items) -@item -p pagesize -Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes -@item -g port -Wait gdb connection to port -@item -singlestep -Run the emulation in single step mode. -@end table - -Environment variables: - -@table @env -@item QEMU_STRACE -Print system calls and arguments similar to the 'strace' program -(NOTE: the actual 'strace' program will not work because the user -space emulator hasn't implemented ptrace). At the moment this is -incomplete. All system calls that don't have a specific argument -format are printed with information for six arguments. Many -flag-style arguments don't have decoders and will show up as numbers. -@end table - -@node Other binaries -@subsection Other binaries - -@cindex user mode (Alpha) -@command{qemu-alpha} TODO. - -@cindex user mode (ARM) -@command{qemu-armeb} TODO. - -@cindex user mode (ARM) -@command{qemu-arm} is also capable of running ARM "Angel" semihosted ELF -binaries (as implemented by the arm-elf and arm-eabi Newlib/GDB -configurations), and arm-uclinux bFLT format binaries. - -@cindex user mode (ColdFire) -@cindex user mode (M68K) -@command{qemu-m68k} is capable of running semihosted binaries using the BDM -(m5xxx-ram-hosted.ld) or m68k-sim (sim.ld) syscall interfaces, and -coldfire uClinux bFLT format binaries. - -The binary format is detected automatically. - -@cindex user mode (Cris) -@command{qemu-cris} TODO. - -@cindex user mode (i386) -@command{qemu-i386} TODO. -@command{qemu-x86_64} TODO. - -@cindex user mode (Microblaze) -@command{qemu-microblaze} TODO. - -@cindex user mode (MIPS) -@command{qemu-mips} executes 32-bit big endian MIPS binaries (MIPS O32 ABI). - -@command{qemu-mipsel} executes 32-bit little endian MIPS binaries (MIPS O32 ABI). - -@command{qemu-mips64} executes 64-bit big endian MIPS binaries (MIPS N64 ABI). - -@command{qemu-mips64el} executes 64-bit little endian MIPS binaries (MIPS N64 ABI). - -@command{qemu-mipsn32} executes 32-bit big endian MIPS binaries (MIPS N32 ABI). - -@command{qemu-mipsn32el} executes 32-bit little endian MIPS binaries (MIPS N32 ABI). - -@cindex user mode (NiosII) -@command{qemu-nios2} TODO. - -@cindex user mode (PowerPC) -@command{qemu-ppc64abi32} TODO. -@command{qemu-ppc64} TODO. -@command{qemu-ppc} TODO. - -@cindex user mode (SH4) -@command{qemu-sh4eb} TODO. -@command{qemu-sh4} TODO. - -@cindex user mode (SPARC) -@command{qemu-sparc} can execute Sparc32 binaries (Sparc32 CPU, 32 bit ABI). - -@command{qemu-sparc32plus} can execute Sparc32 and SPARC32PLUS binaries -(Sparc64 CPU, 32 bit ABI). - -@command{qemu-sparc64} can execute some Sparc64 (Sparc64 CPU, 64 bit ABI) and -SPARC32PLUS binaries (Sparc64 CPU, 32 bit ABI). - -@node BSD User space emulator -@section BSD User space emulator - -@menu -* BSD Status:: -* BSD Quick Start:: -* BSD Command line options:: -@end menu - -@node BSD Status -@subsection BSD Status - -@itemize @minus -@item -target Sparc64 on Sparc64: Some trivial programs work. -@end itemize - -@node BSD Quick Start -@subsection Quick Start - -In order to launch a BSD process, QEMU needs the process executable -itself and all the target dynamic libraries used by it. - -@itemize - -@item On Sparc64, you can just try to launch any process by using the native -libraries: - -@example -qemu-sparc64 /bin/ls -@end example - -@end itemize - -@node BSD Command line options -@subsection Command line options - -@example -@command{qemu-sparc64} [@option{-h]} [@option{-d]} [@option{-L} @var{path}] [@option{-s} @var{size}] [@option{-bsd} @var{type}] @var{program} [@var{arguments}...] -@end example - -@table @option -@item -h -Print the help -@item -L path -Set the library root path (default=/) -@item -s size -Set the stack size in bytes (default=524288) -@item -ignore-environment -Start with an empty environment. Without this option, -the initial environment is a copy of the caller's environment. -@item -E @var{var}=@var{value} -Set environment @var{var} to @var{value}. -@item -U @var{var} -Remove @var{var} from the environment. -@item -bsd type -Set the type of the emulated BSD Operating system. Valid values are -FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD (default). -@end table - -Debug options: - -@table @option -@item -d item1,... -Activate logging of the specified items (use '-d help' for a list of log items) -@item -p pagesize -Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes -@item -singlestep -Run the emulation in single step mode. -@end table - @node System requirements @chapter System requirements