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+QEMU
+---
+
+QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
+virtualizer.
+
+QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
+need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
+it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
+and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
+hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
+near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
+capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
+board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
+
+QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
+and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
+architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
+different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
+involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
+
+QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
+by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
+It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
+layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
+It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
+open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
+
+QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
+version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
+
+
+Building
+---
+
+QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
+Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
+of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
+
+	mkdir build
+	cd build
+	../configure
+	make
+
+Complete details of the process for building and configuring QEMU for
+all supported host platforms can be found in the qemu-tech.html file.
+Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
+
+	http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
+	http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
+
+
+Submitting patches
+---
+
+The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
+
+	git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
+
+When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
+format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
+qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
+a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
+guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
+
+Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
+the QEMU website
+
+	http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
+	http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
+
+
+Bug reporting
+---
+
+The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
+found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
+should be reported via:
+
+	https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
+
+If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
+is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
+the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
+reported via launchpad.
+
+For additional information on bug reporting consult:
+
+	http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug
+
+
+Contact
+---
+
+The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
+main methods being email and IRC
+
+ - Mailing List: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
+ - Archives: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
+ - IRC: #qemu on irc.oftc.net
+
+Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
+found online via the QEMU website:
+
+  http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
+