Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player

[Oliver Gerlich]

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.

What exactly do you mean / what is the actual "use case" for your idea?

Maybe you mean something like this:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb-qemu.html


Btw. regarding your earlier question about a Qemu GUI similar to VMware: 
AFAIK at least two people have posted GUI patches for Qemu (look in the 
mailing list archive); so far there has been little response to that, 
and I suppose that these patches "just" need testing and some feedback 
(as they seem to be pretty intrusive, with changing the video output and 
the input handling stuff).

Regards,
Oliver