From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FrC3v-0003YI-D4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:00:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FrC3t-0003Xu-JG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:00:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrC3t-0003Xl-29 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:00:25 -0400 Received: from [137.226.40.101] (helo=pc42.xtal.rwth-aachen.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FrCDU-0002RF-E4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:10:20 -0400 From: Jan Marten Simons Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VMware Player Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:01:36 +0200 References: <44902362.2000406@gmail.com> <87odwu2wb7.fsf@benpfaff.org> <4491B32D.8060102@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4491B32D.8060102@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606161301.36838.marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: 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 Am Donnerstag, 15. Juni 2006 21:21 schrieb Joe Lee: >Good point on that, BUT it's not just about the GUI. It's about an > "easy" way to install the product and run a given app without the need > to create/setup a VM - To me that is the benefit of the VMware player. ... > > Joe Well, qemu does not even need to be installed, it can run from any location, if it is distributed in an intelligent manner. The steps required to setup a new VM are ridiculus easy as qemu ships a handy tool for creating and converting different disk images and a quite good documentation as well. Regards, Jan