Hi there, I have used QEMU extensively in the past and I agree it is a wonderful piece of software. Also, you can basically use QEMU as KVM to get better performance under linux.
We use VMWare mainly to deploy Sage for Windows. For this situation we don't care too much if the virtualisation/emulation is open-source or not. The users running Windows don't run an open-source stack anyway so it makes no difference to add another non-free (as in free speech) tool to the mix. VMWare Player has the advantage of being very easy to use (easy to configure, mouse trapping, copy'n'paste) and is free as in free beer. Also VMWare is cross platform (OSX, Windows, Linux) such that it is a good choice. That said, there is no reason to exclusively stick to that option. Someone on IRC wanted to spend some time to provide a kick-ass VMWare/VirtualBox/Whatever image for Sage which certainly could be provided for several virtualisation solutions. However, this requires someone to maintain it and/or make it very easy to generate these images for each new release (once a week!). The current VMWare images were created by William Stein just to quickly get the job done, so there is certainly room for improvements. Would you be interested in helping out? Martin PS: Note that it is quite easy to convert a VMWare image to a QEMU and or VirtualBox image, it just takes time. -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
