On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:12:43PM -0400, Joe Lee wrote: > You are right, and the idea is that the person have full interaction > with the application environment including the underlying LAMP/WAMP > stack that has been packaged. Users that want to quickly run and > test-drive the appliance may not really need a full VM type application. > Just something that could quickly run the image (appliance).
An VMWare player "appliance" is really just a disk image & config file. Running a disk image in QEMU is just a matter of executing qemu -hda /path/to/image Perhaps adding "-m XXX" to set increased RAM. This is no harder to do than using VMWare player vmplayer /path/to/appliance Since QEMU already understands VMWare disk images, there's even a good chance that QEMU can run a VMWare "appliance" image itself. So it looks to me that QEMU is already on a par with VMWare player in terms of being able to quickly & simply test 'appliance' images. Dan. > > Joe > > Paul Brook wrote: > >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 -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
