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
