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Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player
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Daniel P. Berrange |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player |
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Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:21:15 +0100 |
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:12:43PM -0400, Joe Lee wrote:
> You are right, and the idea is that the person have full interaction
> with the application environment including the underlying LAMP/WAMP
> stack that has been packaged. Users that want to quickly run and
> test-drive the appliance may not really need a full VM type application.
> Just something that could quickly run the image (appliance).
An VMWare player "appliance" is really just a disk image & config file.
Running a disk image in QEMU is just a matter of executing
qemu -hda /path/to/image
Perhaps adding "-m XXX" to set increased RAM.
This is no harder to do than using VMWare player
vmplayer /path/to/appliance
Since QEMU already understands VMWare disk images, there's even a good
chance that QEMU can run a VMWare "appliance" image itself. So it looks
to me that QEMU is already on a par with VMWare player in terms of being
able to quickly & simply test 'appliance' images.
Dan.
>
> Joe
>
> Paul Brook wrote:
> >On Wednesday 14 June 2006 16:53, Joe Lee wrote:
> >
> >>>Why on earth would we want to make a crippled version of qemu?
> >>>
> >>>AFAIK "Creating" a VMware virtual machine is just making a config file.
> >>>qemu doesn't have config files, so your question makes no sense.
> >>>
> >>Well, I was not thinking or suggesting of a crippled qemu version. I
> >>asked the question because there are some software
> >>appliances which are pre-built and pre-configured apps that are built on
> >>a LAMP stack and packaged as a single image
> >>type file. This image file can be downloaded and run on a product
> >>similar to VMware Player. This is used for quick demo
> >>purposes of an application with out the need to have a full virtual
> >>machine.
> >>
> >
> >My impression was that these "appliances" are full virtual machines. It's
> >just an OS install that's been stripped down and configured to run a
> >single application on startup.
> >
> >Paul
> >
> >
>
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- [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Joe Lee, 2006/06/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Jan Marten Simons, 2006/06/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Mattia Gentilini, 2006/06/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Larry Brigman, 2006/06/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Oliver Gerlich, 2006/06/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, kadil, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, WaxDragon, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Julian Seward, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Johannes Schindelin, 2006/06/15