diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6b5ad1121b..32bd554480 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ DOCS+=docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.html docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.txt docs/interop/
DOCS+=docs/interop/qemu-ga-ref.html docs/interop/qemu-ga-ref.txt docs/interop/qemu-ga-ref.7
DOCS+=docs/qemu-block-drivers.7
DOCS+=docs/qemu-cpu-models.7
+DOCS+=$(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/index.html
ifdef CONFIG_VIRTFS
DOCS+=fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.1
endif
@@ -811,6 +812,7 @@ install-sphinxdocs: sphinxdocs
install-doc: $(DOCS) install-sphinxdocs
$(INSTALL_DIR) "$(DESTDIR)$(qemu_docdir)"
+ $(INSTALL_DATA) $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/index.html "$(DESTDIR)$(qemu_docdir)"
$(INSTALL_DATA) qemu-doc.html "$(DESTDIR)$(qemu_docdir)"
$(INSTALL_DATA) qemu-doc.txt "$(DESTDIR)$(qemu_docdir)"
$(INSTALL_DATA) docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.html "$(DESTDIR)$(qemu_docdir)"
@@ -1017,6 +1019,10 @@ $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/specs/index.html: $(call manual-deps,specs)
$(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/interop/qemu-ga.8: $(call manual-deps,interop)
$(call build-manual,interop,man)
+$(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/index.html: $(SRC_PATH)/docs/index.html.in qemu-version.h
+ $(call quiet-command, sed "s|@@VERSION@@|${VERSION}|g" $< >$@, \
+ "GEN","$@")
+
qemu-options.texi: $(SRC_PATH)/qemu-options.hx $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/hxtool
$(call quiet-command,sh $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/hxtool -t < $< > $@,"GEN","$@")
diff --git a/docs/index.html.in b/docs/index.html.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..94eb782cf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/index.html.in
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+
+
+
+
+ QEMU @@VERSION@@ Documentation
+
+
+ QEMU @@VERSION@@ Documentation
+
+
+