On Sunday 13 August 2006 02:25, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le dim 13 août 2006 02:06, Peter Collingbourne a écrit : > > Dear all, > > > > I found there were no VMware-related packages in the official > > repository, nor any way of creating them. Thus I propose to create > > a tool that will build (for example for VMware Server) vmware-server > > and vmware-modules-source packages based on an installation tarball > > (a la java-package). > > why would we need it when there is already quite plenty of good free > alternatives (qemu, bochs e.g.) ?
vmware * is quite fast * does suspend/resume quite beautifully * the integration with the guest OS via the vmware tools is quite nice * as are shared folders if you're using a Windows guest * using snapshots and clones based off them are quite useful Do qemu and/or bochs provide all of those? I use those features regularly and would welcome such packages. Of course, I'd welcome a Free alternative to vmware even more, but it's just not there atm. cheers -- vbi -- Could this mail be a fake? (Answer: No! - http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro)
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