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@@ -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