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Re: [Xen-users] VMWARE Player alternative
M.A. Williamson wrote:
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.
Sort of like http://qemu.codemonkey.ws/screenshots/main-window.png
I don't think Fabrice likes the idea of integrating a GTK GUI into QEmu
though. Exposing a proper VNC display could be a viable solution though
(especially now that QEmu has a proper absolute mouse).
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.
Actually, there are other alternatives. One could write a kernel module
that implemented enough of the Xen hypercall interface such that you
could run a Xen guest on a normal Linux kernel.
Then it's just a matter of creating a GUI.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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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