From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqWsj-00065i-25 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:02:09 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqWsg-000654-Sc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:02:08 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqWsg-000651-Mu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:02:06 -0400 Received: from [65.74.133.4] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FqX1s-0007Os-46 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:11:36 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:01:58 +0100 References: <44902362.2000406@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44902362.2000406@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606141601.59936.paul@codesourcery.com> 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, joelee724@gmail.com On Wednesday 14 June 2006 15:55, Joe Lee wrote: > I was wondering if there's the capability to have a "vmware player" type > functionality to qemu. This is just to allow playing or running images > with out needing to create virtual machines. May this could be a > separate product. What's everyones thought to this? Why on earth would we want to make a crippled version of qemu? AFAIK "Creating" a VMware virtual machine is just making a config file. qemu doesn't have config files, so your question makes no sense. Paul