From: "John R. Hogerhuis" <jhoger@pobox.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMWare player
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:37:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1129930650.6570.66.camel@aragorn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79bf98480510211322pf2c5fe9n70b8822a4fb91054@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 13:22 -0700, Mike Swanson wrote:
> Yeah, it barely on topic. But the .vmx files are extremely simple text
> files, and qemu-img creates vmdk disk images.
That was my first thought when I saw this as well.
> Yes, it's possible to
> install operating systems solely withing VMware (this is the correct
> spelling, btw) Player, but you cannot install VMware Tools, even with
> the appropriate (windows|linux|freebsd|netware).iso file.
>
I figured as much. I understand some of what VMware tools has in it. Is
it necessary? QEMU is quite usable without special guest-side utilities.
Or perhaps the issue is that VMWare player will not run anything that
does not have VMware tools installed?
-- John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-21 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-21 19:29 [Qemu-devel] VMWare player John R. Hogerhuis
2005-10-21 20:22 ` Mike Swanson
2005-10-21 21:37 ` John R. Hogerhuis [this message]
2005-10-22 10:48 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Marinelli
2005-10-22 21:46 ` John R. Hogerhuis
2005-10-22 21:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-23 4:05 ` John R. Hogerhuis
2005-11-10 2:14 ` John Wells
2005-11-10 2:18 ` Mike Swanson
2005-11-10 7:34 ` Christian MICHON
2005-11-10 13:20 ` Nis Jorgensen
2005-10-28 22:10 ` Henning Sprang
2005-10-22 14:34 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jim C. Brown
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-14 14:55 [Qemu-devel] VMware Player Joe Lee
2006-06-14 15:01 ` Paul Brook
2006-06-14 15:53 ` Joe Lee
2006-06-14 16:02 ` Paul Brook
2006-06-14 16:12 ` Joe Lee
2006-06-14 16:21 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-06-14 16:39 ` Jan Marten Simons
2006-06-14 17:42 ` Joe Lee
2006-06-14 16:10 ` Oliver Gerlich
2006-06-15 7:47 ` kadil
2006-06-15 13:18 ` WaxDragon
2006-06-15 13:43 ` Julian Seward
2006-06-15 13:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-15 14:18 ` Joe Lee
2006-06-15 14:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-15 19:42 ` Joe Lee
2006-06-15 20:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-15 21:04 ` Joe Lee
2006-06-15 20:34 ` Joe Lee
2006-06-15 20:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-15 21:03 ` Joe Lee
2006-06-16 3:39 ` Rick Vernam
2006-06-16 4:31 ` Joe Lee
2006-06-16 5:20 ` Rick Vernam
2006-06-15 22:29 ` Oliver Gerlich
2006-06-15 23:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-15 23:38 ` Oliver Gerlich
2006-06-16 9:34 ` kadil
2006-06-15 15:25 ` Oliver Gerlich
2006-06-15 21:17 ` John Morris
2006-06-16 6:51 ` Tim Walker
2006-06-16 7:21 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-06-16 12:45 ` Stuart Brady
2006-06-16 15:02 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-06-16 15:07 ` Christian MICHON
2006-06-16 15:35 ` Oliver Gerlich
2006-06-16 17:18 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-06-16 14:18 ` Joe Lee
2006-06-16 14:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-14 16:22 ` Jan Marten Simons
2006-06-14 17:15 ` Mattia Gentilini
2006-06-14 16:27 ` Larry Brigman
2006-06-17 6:15 Mattia Gentilini (QD)
2006-06-17 7:25 ` Tim Walker
2006-06-17 15:46 Mattia Gentilini (QD)
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