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Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player
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Jan Marten Simons |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player |
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Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:39:14 +0200 |
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Am Mittwoch, 14. Juni 2006 18:21 schrieb Daniel P. Berrange:
> 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.
To add to this and my previous mail, I'd like to point to ReactOS, which is
distributed in various forms for simple testing, including a version bundled
with qemu: http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/download.html
With regards,
Jan
PS: As qemu is really small compared to VMware Player, it poses only very
little overhead to bundle it with the image (one could even hack some sort of
selfextracting executable qemu+imagefile)
- [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
- [Qemu-devel] Re: VMware Player, Ben Pfaff, 2006/06/15