Hi List. I'm in contact with one of the writers for the german (large) computer magazine c't (computer and technology) defending qemu (he neglected some features qemu has in one of his articles). Now he asks me for an article about what the "average user" would benefit from when he would use qemu instead of virtual pc/vmware (their "free" products, like player, ESX ...). The examples I named up to now where qemu -nographic -hda linux.img -kernel linux-2.6.17.6/arch/i386/boot/bzImage -append "console=ttyS0 root=/dev/hda ide2=noprobe ide3=noprobe ide4=noprobe ide5=noprobe" -hdb fat:/mnt/data/Projekte/qemu/linux-test/bla doing a little linux kernel driver development learning this way. (Good free pdf over at oreilly) Also, when testing OCFS2 (Oracle cluster fs 2) and not having a SAN/iSCSI system at hand I tried this: qemu -hda breezy.img -hdb ocsf2.img mounting that image once qemu -hda breezy.img -hdb ocsf2.img and now mounting it again in a second instance of qemu with slightly different network setup. That works with qemu, vmware desktop wouldn't take the image a second time. Also, a demonstration LiveCD could be made to boot on a system but also to be played with qemu/qvm86 under win and linux (kqemu can't be re-distributed). There would be statically built qemu's on the CD with bat/bash skripts to start them (automatically). Also, qemu can run happily on the server awaiting connects via vnc. But some of the free products can do that too.
Soo, do you have any more ideas what qemu can what the (free) alternatives from M$/VMWare can't? Virtual PC can't handle USB _at_all_, what's the status of USB2.0 with qemu ( I think VMWare is still stuck on USB 1.1 )? VMWare Desktop (not free) has "unlimited" snapshots IIRC, ESX just recently got one snapshot functionality. I can't say if I would do the article or the writer for the magazine but at least it would make qemu more visible to (more technical inclined) people -> good in my eyes. Thanks for your suggestions Cheers Udo -- Robos - gpg --recv-keys --keyserver blackhole.pca.dfn.de 6EEADA09 _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
