On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 02:25:59AM +0200, 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.) ?
To provide choice to the user perhaps? I myself use qemu but some may need features such as suspend/resume. Also, qemu is a bit slow without the non-free accelerator module. Thanks, -- Peter
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