On Wednesday 14 June 2006 16:53, Joe Lee wrote: > > Why on earth would we want to make a crippled version of qemu? > > > > AFAIK "Creating" a VMware virtual machine is just making a config file. > > qemu doesn't have config files, so your question makes no sense. > > Well, I was not thinking or suggesting of a crippled qemu version. I > asked the question because there are some software > appliances which are pre-built and pre-configured apps that are built on > a LAMP stack and packaged as a single image > type file. This image file can be downloaded and run on a product > similar to VMware Player. This is used for quick demo > purposes of an application with out the need to have a full virtual > machine.
My impression was that these "appliances" are full virtual machines. It's just an OS install that's been stripped down and configured to run a single application on startup. Paul _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
