From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6V0G-0004bX-62 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:15:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6V0D-0004bE-QU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:15:54 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6V0D-0004bB-Km for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:15:53 -0400 Received: from [64.233.182.189] (helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G6V2F-0003zU-0l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:17:59 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id a25so216341nfc for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:15:46 +0200 From: "andrzej zaborowski" Sender: balrogg@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] What can qemu do that vmware/virtual pc can't...article idea In-Reply-To: <20060728135806.GB24108@muon.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060728135806.GB24108@muon.de> Reply-To: balrogg@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 > Soo, do you have any more ideas what qemu can what the (free) alternatives > from M$/VMWare can't? I must admit I haven't used Virtual PC and have no idea about what it can do, but I tried VMWare. In terms of using, apart from the source code, I think the biggest advantage of QEMU is the amount of hardware it can emulate. There's a number of input devices, graphics cards, NICs, storage devices and above all CPUs. VMWare can do only a very little part of this, and it doesn't emulate the CPU at all, it only virtualises it. It won't run on a platform different than i386 or with a guest different than i386. So, QEMU is a quite generic computer emulator and I don't know if the word "alternatives" can be used because they don't have the functionality that I personally exploit in QEMU. Also, if I was forced to use VMWare for some reason, I would miss the flexibility of -monitor, -serial, and the options related to the graphics display, as well as the debug info I can get from QEMU. Regards, -- balrog 2oo6 Dear Outlook users: Please remove me from your address books http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/143258