Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
>>Qemu does perform the hardware emulation, but is extremely slow. I don't
>>know how well the closed source accelerator is faring, but if I'm going
>>to buy something, I'll buy something that's ready.
>>
>>
>That is entirely your prerogative. The other side of the coin is
>helping the open source alternative do what you need it to do.
>
But the accelerator is not open source. Had it been, you'd hear a
totally different line of reasoning from me. I still may not have chosen
it eventually, but it would have received a much greater consideration
from me. I've been at the "we'll sell it now and relicense it open
source if enough people buy" game with Transgaming. My motto is "never
wait, never assume they will follow through". I'll be glad to be
pleasently surprised. I'll even contribute my money AFTER the fact, if
it's useful for me.
> Compare
>and contrast bitkeeper vs. git and mercurial.
>
>
Ok, let's contrast them. Bitkeeper was about storing your most vital
information in a proprietary format that wanted strange terms to get (at
least if you didn't want to put out money).
On the other hand, VMWare emulates 100% standard hardware. My software
is not adapted to it in any way (the reason I'm using VMWare and not
Xen), and there is no trace in the standard usage of my usage of it. In
other words - it's a convinence tool with no lock-in.
>Cheers,
>Muli
>
>
Shachar
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