Le dim 13 août 2006 15:24, Adrian von Bidder a écrit : > 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.
qemu + the accelerator can do all of that, maybe not with a so nice UI than vmware, but that is definitely writeable IMHO. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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