Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player

[Joe Lee <joelee724@gmail.com>]

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> 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.

I am totally new to VM technologies but have played around with VMware 
and the player as well. So, my question was just
an inquiry to see if that capability would make sense on a qemu based 
product that is open source.

However, thanks and appreciated your comments/feedback!

joe







Paul Brook wrote:
> 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
>
>