+Fedora
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+We provide packages for Fedora >= 11 in Fedora. Use those, or build
+from our source RPMs - it's far simpler that way.
+
+You can compile libguestfs on Fedora 10 but you cannot use it with the
+version of qemu in Fedora 10. You need to compile your own qemu, see
+section 'qemu' below.
+
+
+RHEL / EPEL / CentOS etc
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+We provide packages in EPEL which cover RHEL/CentOS >= 5. Use those
+or build from our source RPMs.
+
+
+Debian
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+libguestfs should build and run on Debian. At the moment we don't
+provide Debian packages, and because of the appliance it's rather
+complicated to provide a package which could be accepted into the
+Debian repositories. Want to help? Please contact us.
+
+
+qemu
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+By far the most common problem is with broken or incompatible
+qemu releases.
+
+First of all, you need qemu >= 0.10.4, which contains a vmchannel
+implementation. There are several, conflicting, incompatible things
+called 'vmchannel' which at one time or another have been added or
+proposed for qemu/KVM. The _only_ one we support is this one:
+
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-02/msg01042.html
+
+Secondly, different versions of qemu have problems booting the
+appliance for different reasons. This varies between versions of
+qemu, and Linux distributions which add their own patches.
+
+If you find a problem, you could try using your own qemu built from
+source (qemu is very easy to build from source), with a 'qemu
+wrapper'. Qemu wrappers are described in the guestfs(3) manpage.
+
+
+Note on using KVM
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+By default the configure script will look for qemu-kvm (KVM support).
+You will need a reasonably recent processor for this to work. KVM is
+much faster than using plain Qemu.
+
+You may also need to enable KVM support for non-root users, by following
+these instructions:
+
+ http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/FAQ#How_can_I_use_kvm_with_a_non-privileged_user.3F
+
+On some systems, this will work too:
+
+ chmod o+rw /dev/kvm
+
+On some systems, the chmod will not survive a reboot, and you will
+need to make edits to the udev configuration.
+
+