From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqZO5-0007FN-HN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:42:41 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqZO1-0007EL-Rd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:42:41 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqZO1-0007EI-Kt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:42:37 -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 1FqZXF-0007qy-6r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:52:09 -0400 Received: from [64.233.184.237] (helo=wr-out-0506.google.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FqZO0-0002x9-VT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:42:37 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i2so104355wra for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:42:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44904A8D.3070304@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:42:37 -0400 From: Joe Lee MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player References: <44902362.2000406@gmail.com> <4490357B.5040505@gmail.com> <20060614162115.GC20393@redhat.com> <200606141839.14686.marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <200606141839.14686.marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de> 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 Thanks for the comments below, It seems that QEMU can easily be used to run images. I will start to look into the availabe GUI front-ends for QEMU. - joe Jan Marten Simons wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 14. Juni 2006 18:21 schrieb Daniel P. Berrange: > >> An VMWare player "appliance" is really just a disk image & config file. >> Running a disk image in QEMU is just a matter of executing >> >> qemu -hda /path/to/image >> >> Perhaps adding "-m XXX" to set increased RAM. >> >> This is no harder to do than using VMWare player >> >> vmplayer /path/to/appliance >> >> Since QEMU already understands VMWare disk images, there's even a good >> chance that QEMU can run a VMWare "appliance" image itself. So it looks >> to me that QEMU is already on a par with VMWare player in terms of being >> able to quickly & simply test 'appliance' images. >> >> Dan. >> > > To add to this and my previous mail, I'd like to point to ReactOS, which is > distributed in various forms for simple testing, including a version bundled > with qemu: http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/download.html > > With regards, > Jan > > PS: As qemu is really small compared to VMware Player, it poses only very > little overhead to bundle it with the image (one could even hack some sort of > selfextracting executable qemu+imagefile) > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > >