From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqYDu-00079E-Rq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:28:07 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqYDs-00076r-I9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:28:05 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqYDs-00076U-7K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:28:04 -0400 Received: from [64.233.166.176] (helo=py-out-1112.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FqYN5-0002jO-0d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:37:35 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so2057454pye for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:27:54 -0700 From: "Larry Brigman" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player In-Reply-To: <4490310D.7060303@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> <200606141601.59936.paul@codesourcery.com> <4490310D.7060303@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 6/14/06, 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. > > 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.