From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqxbA-0006Zl-Hw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:33:48 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqxb8-0006ZV-0U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:33:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqxb7-0006ZS-T3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:33:45 -0400 Received: from [64.233.162.200] (helo=nz-out-0102.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fqxka-0000DU-EX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:43:32 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id z3so284599nzf for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9b0d5f320606151233h3a1f609dob5eb9b984831f8af@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:33:45 -0400 From: WaxDragon Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VMware Player In-Reply-To: <4491B32D.8060102@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44902362.2000406@gmail.com> <1150357642.5679.7.camel@excellence.kicks-ass.net> <9b0d5f320606150618q25cd2b51v6a2ee6fc951f26b9@mail.gmail.com> <200606151443.42890.jseward@acm.org> <87odwu2wb7.fsf@benpfaff.org> <4491B32D.8060102@gmail.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: joelee724@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 6/15/06, Joe Lee wrote: > Good point on that, BUT it's not just about the GUI. It's about an > "easy" way to install the product and run a given app without the need > to create/setup a VM - To me that is the benefit of the VMware player. > However, not much of a big benefit IF QEMU is made easy to install and > has a nice GUI along with it - IMO. > > Joe > I've seen several projects ship preinstalled images with prebuilt qemu binaries, and a script to start it. It doesn't get much easier than that. WD -- why does the size matter?