From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUXIP-0002sf-Vg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:24:58 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUXIP-0002sT-Hc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:24:57 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUXIP-0002sQ-Dm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:24:57 -0500 Received: from [68.238.8.190] (helo=dash.soliddesign.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CUX92-00014k-Nm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:15:16 -0500 Received: from fred.ofc.soliddesign.net (unknown [10.2.3.220]) by dash.soliddesign.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F104574FB for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:15:16 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] question for QEMU users From: Joe Batt In-Reply-To: <20041117191438.GB2072@sentinelchicken.org> References: <41e41e7a041116170723778032@mail.gmail.com> <1100659798.1658.747.camel@aragorn> <200411171405.45851.pg@futureware.at> <20041117191438.GB2072@sentinelchicken.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:15:12 -0500 Message-Id: <1100726112.28986.182.camel@fred.ofc.soliddesign.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On the professional side, I currently use VMWare under Linux to do win32 development and testing. It is very convenient to have a portable (across machines) image of my development workstation. I also use different VM images for testing under different environments (OSs and configurations). What I don't like about VMWare is that I must load kernel modules and that it is licensed per (OS,user), not per user, so I would need to buy another license to use a Windows host. My machines are very fluid. I tend to run things on my laptop, workstation, wife's machine, client's machines (anywhere there is an open seat), so the simplicity of qemu compared to VMWare is a huge benefit. Rebooting to Knoppix might work, but then I don't have the native tools like Outlook at the client site, or would require me to reboot my wife's machine (which is against the Law). Personally, I would like to use qemu to do distributed processing with an openmosix guest across a variety of hosts. I've been excited about single image clusters since the early 90s and I think qemu could be a very handy tool in management of them, especially when you consider running the desktops as peers in the cluster, instead of clients of the cluster. I don't currently need GL/DirectX/high end graphics support, but I can easily imaging the day that it will be required (for apps that use complex data displays like 3d charts). Audio is just a nicety for me (to test failure beeps in the apps I write). Speed is very important. Last time I tried, Knoppix was not what I would consider usable inside qemu on my dual 2.4 Ghz Xeon with 1 GB RAM. -- Joe Batt