Soo, do you have any more ideas what qemu can what the (free) alternatives from M$/VMWare can't?
I must admit I haven't used Virtual PC and have no idea about what it can do, but I tried VMWare. In terms of using, apart from the source code, I think the biggest advantage of QEMU is the amount of hardware it can emulate. There's a number of input devices, graphics cards, NICs, storage devices and above all CPUs. VMWare can do only a very little part of this, and it doesn't emulate the CPU at all, it only virtualises it. It won't run on a platform different than i386 or with a guest different than i386. So, QEMU is a quite generic computer emulator and I don't know if the word "alternatives" can be used because they don't have the functionality that I personally exploit in QEMU. Also, if I was forced to use VMWare for some reason, I would miss the flexibility of -monitor, -serial, and the options related to the graphics display, as well as the debug info I can get from QEMU. Regards, -- balrog 2oo6 Dear Outlook users: Please remove me from your address books http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/143258 _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
