From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqXgn-0006tM-W5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:53:54 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqXgm-0006sS-Dm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:53:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqXgm-0006sL-98 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:53:52 -0400 Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FqXpy-0003pn-LS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:03:22 -0400 Received: from [64.233.184.232] (helo=wr-out-0506.google.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FqXgl-0005Gf-C4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:53:51 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i24so160570wra for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:53:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4490310D.7060303@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:53:49 -0400 From: Joe Lee MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player References: <44902362.2000406@gmail.com> <200606141601.59936.paul@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200606141601.59936.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: joelee724@gmail.com, 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 > > 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 > >