Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player

[Joe Lee <joelee724@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the comments below, It seems that QEMU can easily be used to 
run images. I will start to look into the availabe GUI front-ends for QEMU.
- joe

Jan Marten Simons wrote:
> 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)
>
>
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