From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ea1lc-0003cL-JV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:02:20 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ea1lb-0003c9-0j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:02:20 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ea1la-0003c6-UJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:02:18 -0500 Received: from [69.17.117.29] (helo=mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Ea1la-0000Eb-F4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:02:18 -0500 Received: from dsl017-004-014.ser1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO mail.devsea.com) ([69.17.4.14]) (envelope-sender ) by mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Nov 2005 02:02:16 -0000 Message-ID: <57528.172.16.3.2.1131588878.squirrel@devsea.net> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 21:14:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VMWare player From: "John Wells" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <1129922985.6570.51.camel@aragorn><1130017578.6570.107.camel@aragorn><1130040359.21689.33.camel@aragorn> In-Reply-To: <1130040359.21689.33.camel@aragorn> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: jhoger@pobox.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org John R. Hogerhuis said: > I understood. I just don't believe it; I didn't get the impression Stefano was saying that he had actually tried it. AFAIK, VMware Player writes changes to the hard disk image. I was able to successfully take my qemu installation of Windows XP, convert it with qemu-img to a vmdk file, and then boot it up in VMWare player (and yes, I own the full version of VMWare as well on another machine, so I'm not worried about the legality if there are any concerns). I was also able to create a vmdk image from scratch using qemu-img and install OpenBSD in it. As I've only owned the full version for about two weeks, I haven't researched what VMWare tools adds to the picture, but I know resolution hasn't been a problem with VMWare Player, at least on the XP image. Performance does seem a bit better than qemu, but I done anything to quantify this. I'm running on the latest version of Ubuntu. John