qemu/docs/glossary.rst

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14 hardware-based, through a virtualization API provided by the host OS (kvm, hvf,
15 whpx, ...), or software-based (tcg). See this description of `supported
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26 Block drivers are the available `disk formats and front-ends
27 <block-drivers>` available, and block devices `(see Block device section on
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45 including `many devices<device-emulation>`. When QEMU runs a virtual machine
46 using a hardware-based accelerator, it is responsible for emulating, using
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60 debug a running virtual machine, or a program in user-mode. This allows
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74 The `QEMU Guest Agent <qemu-ga>` is a daemon intended to be run within virtual
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116 ``-machine`` of qemu-system. Our machine models can be found on this `page
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128 The `QEMU Network Block Device server <qemu-nbd>` is a tool that can be used to
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139 <https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues>`_ tracker is the best place.
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151 QEMU user-mode does not implement a full software MMU, but "simply" translates
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168 Multiple CPU support was first implemented using a round-robin algorithm
169 running on a single thread. Later on, `Multi-threaded TCG <mttcg>` was developed
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227 `A new programming language <https://www.rust-lang.org/>`_, memory safe by
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254 TCG is the QEMU `Tiny Code Generator <tcg>`. It is the JIT (just-in-time)
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279 `Vhost-user <vhost_user>` is an interface used to implement VirtIO devices