Thanks for the comments below, It seems that QEMU can easily be used to
run images. I will start to look into the availabe GUI front-ends for QEMU.
- joe
Jan Marten Simons wrote:
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)
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