|
> Soo, do you have any more ideas what qemu can what the (free)
alternatives
> from M$/VMWare can't? I use both QEMU and VMWare (commercial version),
but for very different reasons. Both are excellent tools that make my job
easier.
I'm primarily a Windows developer, but I do have
some Linux tools I support. VMWare works well when I need to switch to Linux to
write code. It virtualizes a generic PC, which is all I need. It's time tested,
reliable and predictable.
But I work for a company that sells HW/SW.
Our HW is your basic PC, but with some additional non-standard devices. Our SW
won't run without these devices (no way, no matter how clever you are with the
preprocessor, you won't make it run). So it won't run under VMWare, or VPC. They
aren't extensible. QEMU is. Just grab the source code.
Fabrice et.el. did an amazing thing with QEMU.
Adding emulation for our hardware wasn't tough to do. Moving from the
edit...compile...download...reboot...debug...repeat cycle to
edit...compile...debug...repeat cycle is a BIG advantage for us. You just can't
do that with the commercial products.
And QEMU is so light weight...I can throw the whole
thing on a pen drive, plug into any managers/sales/marketing/tech writers/etc.
machine, and just run it. Installing VMWare player is a bit more heavy handed.
Not sure, but I suspect you need admin priv. to do it? I live in corp. America.
Our tech writers don't HAVE admin privileges.
|
_______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
