From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUTC9-0007KD-NS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:02:14 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUTC6-0007Ix-SN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:02:11 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUTC6-0007Is-GA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:02:10 -0500 Received: from [24.206.159.131] (helo=smtp.cebridge.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CUT2i-0000FW-4J for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:52:28 -0500 Message-ID: <003301c4ccc5$d05f59f0$964aa50c@computername> From: References: <41e41e7a041116170723778032@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] question for QEMU users Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:52:19 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Hetz Ben Hamo , qemu-devel@nongnu.org > What plugin for QEMU would you consider to buy and for what terms > (support etc) and how much would you pay? Not a lot, since I already have vmware.... And it'd have to be fully = open source. Otherwise there's not much point is changing from a closed = source vmware. =20 > * X86 plugin (to make QEMU use kenel mode and have at least VMWare > speed and performance) The only way I'd be willing to consider paying for qemu is if it was = good enough for me to give up vmware. 1) Which means it could run under Windows fast enough to actually use. 2) And also, if at all possible, have video performance good enough it = would actually be possible to play some games, watch dvd's, etc. 3) And, of course, by that time you'd have fine tuned the rest of the = program to better emulate hardware, etc. etc. etc. In other words, actually good enough you could really use it as a real = second computer, rather than as an emulated computer. Number 1 is going to be an issue because it looks like Fabrice's future = high speed plans will only work under Linux.