Description of problem: There is no man page for qemu-kvm or no binary for qemu man page. Packaging guidelines: Packages should contain man pages for all binaries/scripts. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines?rd=Packaging/Guidelines#Man_pages Even if it's present, it's hard to find it for normal users. Why we can't just make an alias of qemu -> qemu-kvm ? Please add this alias. This should simplify my qemu usage. Also it will be nice to have same files for qemu/qemu-kvm in Fedora and EL. When upgrading my host from centos/fedora or back, I have to change path to qemu in each libvirt configuration file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-1.2.2-4.fc18.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man qemu-kvm 2. qemu Actual results: [root@work ~]# man qemu-kvm No manual entry for qemu-kvm [root@work ~]# qemu bash: qemu: command not found
(In reply to comment #0) [...] There are at least 3 issues covered in this. Please file separate bugs for separate issues. But on this one: > Why we can't just make an alias of qemu -> qemu-kvm ? > Please add this alias. This should simplify my qemu usage. This would be wrong. Upstream 'qemu' is the software i386 emulator. It's very different from 'qemu-kvm'. In Fedora we have changed 'qemu' to 'qemu-system-i386' to make the name consistent with the other 'qemu-system-*' programs. We should not add confusion by changing the definition of 'qemu' from what is upstream.
(In reply to comment #1) > In Fedora we have changed > 'qemu' to 'qemu-system-i386' to make the name consistent with > the other 'qemu-system-*' programs. We should not add confusion > by changing the definition of 'qemu' from what is upstream. Actually, it was upstream who renamed 'qemu' to 'qemu-system-i386'. Per their changelog http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.0 "i386-softmmu is no longer named qemu but instead referred to as qemu-system-i386 for better consistency with other targets. A new tool is likely to be introduced that uses the qemu name so distributions are advised to not undo this change. " As such, Fedora will *not* be creating any binary named 'qemu', until upstream does.
I'm just going to symlink qemu-kvm.1 and qemu-system-* to the qemu.1 manpage, it's about the best we can do.
qemu-1.4.2-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/qemu-1.4.2-1.fc19
Package qemu-1.4.2-1.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing qemu-1.4.2-1.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-9287/qemu-1.4.2-1.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
qemu-1.4.2-2.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/qemu-1.4.2-2.fc19
qemu-1.4.2-2.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.