On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 08:20, Oliver Gerlich wrote: > Hi, > > that's an interesting topic you bring up there :D > > It looks like there are many different groups which all have quite > different uses of qemu on their mind... Jürgen, you think about a > _really_ stable "hardware" platform; other people think about a honeypot > framework; even other people want to have lots of different system > architectures for software development and testing; I myself just want a > way to have a Windows available on my Linux PC, for gaming and running > Windows apps. Not to mention the various toy-like uses, like the Linux > screensaver. And if I got that correctly, one of the original uses of > qemu was to run wine on PPC - ironically, this is probably not such an > issue now, with Apple switching to x86 :) > > So, to me it seems like the many different uses of qemu indeed need a > very different qemu each; and though I'm not a qemu developer at all > (and hence can't "demand" any specific direction of development), I'd be > glad if qemu wouldn't just go into one direction. > Maybe it is indeed about time to think about the "main uses" that qemu > should satisfy. For me, that would be the "Windows-sandbox on my Desktop > Linux": with a nice GUI, an assistant to help with the creation of a new > image, with some guest-side tools for more convenience, with not too > slow graphics, and without big ties to the host system. > > Jürgen has stated his desired functionality already. What other "main > uses" are there? (Asked in the hope of further sparking the discussion ;)
Well, my main interest is in running MS Windows (as many versions as possible) on my Linux box for gaming and development purposes - eg, rewriting various bits and pieces of DOOM and Quake etc, using MinGW, etc, testing new and up-and-coming F/LOS OSes such as ReactOS and Syllable, and suchlike. Wesley Parish <Snip> > > > > Yours Jürgen > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qemu-devel mailing list > > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
