Re: vmware player images and gpl

2006-01-06 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:21:09AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > It's also a "test bed" for new ideas in emulations, just few weeks > ago, Fabrice (the genius guy who created QEMU and also wrote FFMPEG > that almost every Linux and other OS's media player uses these days) > has committed an intere

Re: vmware player images and gpl

2006-01-05 Thread Oron Peled
On Friday, 6 בJanuary 2006 00:21, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Emulation of up to 255 X86 processors for your guest OS. I don't know > any OS's that support such a number of CPU's,... Well, here is one: Linux http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/ Up to 512 processors (and there's a single experim

Re: vmware player images and gpl

2006-01-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Diego, > How to make new images for this tool...? (evaluating other vmware > products...?) Quite simple. Use QEMU to create those images. I use it all the times: creating images with QEMU and using them with the player (or with commercial VMWare) and vice versa. The VMWare settings files are s

Re: vmware player images and gpl

2006-01-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:28:41PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > Hi all, > > > For all those who are still living in a bobble, vmware released some I was, thanks. > How to make new images for this tool...? (evaluating other vmware > products...?) They used to have a tool on their site call

Re: vmware player images and gpl

2006-01-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Diego Iastrubni wrote: > Hi all, > > > For all those who are still living in a bobble, vmware released some > months ago "free at no cost" applications which only play the good old > vmware images, for Linux, Windows and Mac. They also provide a lot of > images for most of your favorite Linux dist

Re: vmware player images and gpl

2006-01-05 Thread Baruch Even
Diego Iastrubni wrote: > How to make new images for this tool...? (evaluating other vmware > products...?) It is said (and I didn't test it) that qemu is capable of creating a vmware disk image that you can use to install whatever you want on. And then you can use vmware player to run the image.

GPLed software in language without GPLed compilers (was: Re: vmware player images and gpl)

2006-01-05 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 20:28 +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > Now a more theoretical question. Lets say, I write an extreamly cool > application but it can be compiled with my own language, which I do > not provide specs, and I do not give a "free at no cost" tool for > compiling applications

Re: vmware player images and gpl

2006-01-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:28:41PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > For all those who are still living in a bobble, vmware released some > months ago "free at no cost" applications which only play the good old > vmware images, for Linux, Windows and Mac. They also provide a lot of > images for m

vmware player images and gpl

2006-01-05 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Hi all, For all those who are still living in a bobble, vmware released some months ago "free at no cost" applications which only play the good old vmware images, for Linux, Windows and Mac. They also provide a lot of images for most of your favorite Linux distros. It seems they are afraid o