If I recall correctly, you can use a disk image utility included with QEMU to convert a vmware image to one usable by QEMU, or even an image that can be written directly to disk (e.g. via the dd command).
On Dec 26, 8:52 am, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
