Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player

["Larry Brigman" <larry.brigman@gmail.com>]

On 6/14/06, Joe Lee <joelee724@gmail.com> 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.
>
> 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!
>
>...(removed additional quoted material)

If you are looking at something like rpath/rbuilder then qemu will run
those images that
are packaged as raw HDD.  If you set the options right the running
image has network access also.  I am trying to figure out how to get
the network access options working
for the windows version of Qemu.