From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqY9a-0003lm-K2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:23:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqY9a-0003l8-2K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:23:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqY9Z-0003kK-3X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:23:37 -0400 Received: from [66.187.233.31] (helo=mx1.redhat.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FqYIl-0002PK-NX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:33:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:21:15 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player Message-ID: <20060614162115.GC20393@redhat.com> References: <44902362.2000406@gmail.com> <200606141601.59936.paul@codesourcery.com> <4490310D.7060303@gmail.com> <200606141702.56697.paul@codesourcery.com> <4490357B.5040505@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4490357B.5040505@gmail.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: joelee724@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Paul Brook On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:12:43PM -0400, Joe Lee wrote: > You are right, and the idea is that the person have full interaction > with the application environment including the underlying LAMP/WAMP > stack that has been packaged. Users that want to quickly run and > test-drive the appliance may not really need a full VM type application. > Just something that could quickly run the image (appliance). 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. > > Joe > > Paul Brook wrote: > >On Wednesday 14 June 2006 16:53, Joe Lee wrote: > > > >>>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. > >>> > >>Well, I was not thinking or suggesting of a crippled qemu version. I > >>asked the question because there are some software > >>appliances which are pre-built and pre-configured apps that are built on > >>a LAMP stack and packaged as a single image > >>type file. This image file can be downloaded and run on a product > >>similar to VMware Player. This is used for quick demo > >>purposes of an application with out the need to have a full virtual > >>machine. > >> > > > >My impression was that these "appliances" are full virtual machines. It's > >just an OS install that's been stripped down and configured to run a > >single application on startup. > > > >Paul > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|