Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player

[Joe Lee <joelee724@gmail.com>]

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).

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
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