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diff --git a/docs/about/index.rst b/docs/about/index.rst index 5bea653c07..b00b584b31 100644 --- a/docs/about/index.rst +++ b/docs/about/index.rst @@ -5,24 +5,25 @@ About QEMU QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. QEMU can be used in several different ways. The most common is for -"system emulation", where it provides a virtual model of an +:ref:`System Emulation`, where it provides a virtual model of an entire machine (CPU, memory and emulated devices) to run a guest OS. -In this mode the CPU may be fully emulated, or it may work with -a hypervisor such as KVM, Xen, Hax or Hypervisor.Framework to -allow the guest to run directly on the host CPU. +In this mode the CPU may be fully emulated, or it may work with a +hypervisor such as KVM, Xen, Hax or Hypervisor.Framework to allow the +guest to run directly on the host CPU. -The second supported way to use QEMU is "user mode emulation", +The second supported way to use QEMU is :ref:`User Mode Emulation`, where QEMU can launch processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU. In this mode the CPU is always emulated. -QEMU also provides a number of standalone commandline utilities, -such as the ``qemu-img`` disk image utility that allows you to create, -convert and modify disk images. +QEMU also provides a number of standalone :ref:`command line +utilities<Tools>`, such as the ``qemu-img`` disk image utility that +allows you to create, convert and modify disk images. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 build-platforms + emulation deprecated removed-features license |