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Re: [Xen-users] VMWARE Player alternative
Thanks for the info! I demo'd qemu and while it works o.k, I don't think
better then VMplayer. It got someways to go - I'll keep my eye on it!
It has some pretty nifty features, including compatibility with (single
file) VMware virtual disks and (I think) Virtual PC virtual disks, as well
as it's own copy on write format (so you can snapshot the disk state at
various points).
The main disadvantage is probably speed, but with the current (in beta)
accelerator module there is a substantial speedup - did you try this?
The other disadvantage is the GUI - it's not very friendly. There are some
wrappers for starting QEmu from a GUI but basically it's waiting for
somebody industrious to create a proper GTK or QT GUI with VMware Player
type functionality.
Though it would be nice for XEN team to come up with a solution like
that of VMware Player
It would indeed. Unfortunately Xen needs to be installed and booted into
before you can run Xen domains. Once Xen becomes more pervasive (lots of
distros are starting to ship it) it'll probably make sense to have a player
/ workstation style GUI for people who are running Xen on a single system.
This could be very nice - especially once Vanderpool / Pacifica hardware
becomes commonplace.
There are lots of little tricks you can do to make the tools nice.
Scrapbook for UML allows you to click on a hyperlink to a running UML
virtual machine and have that VM appear with a virtual display on your
computer. This can be used (for instance) to demo software - click a link
on the vendor's homepage and get a virtual machine with the product up and
running. If you don't like it, just ditch that VM. If you do, then install
the software properly. Pretty neat, and there are lots of possibilities
too.
Cheers,
mark
M.A. Williamson wrote:
QEmu (http://www.qemu.org)
Or if you're on a PPC or Intel Mac, take a look at Q:
http://www.kberg.ch/q/
(Q is basically a release of QEmu that's had a nifty Mac GUI put on it)
QEmu has an optional binary-only accelerator module that will boost
the speed significantly but is closed-source (for now). There's an
open source accelerator for Qemu called QVM86 but it's less advanced.
Cheers,
Mark
On Apr 20 2006, Joe Lee wrote:
Thought I post this question here: Is there an open source
alternative to VMware Player. I know it's a free product BUT would
like to know if there is any known other open source alternatives.
Thanks in advance for your comments!
Joe
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