From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqXz3-00084H-9H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:12:45 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqXz1-00080p-A1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:12:44 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqXz1-00080c-5A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:12:43 -0400 Received: from [64.233.184.231] (helo=wr-out-0506.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FqY8D-0001MG-KX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:22:13 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 71so94695wra for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:12:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4490357B.5040505@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:12:43 -0400 From: Joe Lee MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player References: <44902362.2000406@gmail.com> <200606141601.59936.paul@codesourcery.com> <4490310D.7060303@gmail.com> <200606141702.56697.paul@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200606141702.56697.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: Paul Brook Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 > >