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
simple text file and can be easily to learn.

As regarding to "competition" between VMWare and QEMU that I saw
mentioned here. Well, There isn't really a "competition" here. If
someone don't want to pay for VMWare (workstation) and still want to
use it, all he needs to do is to create the images with QEMU, hack
some config files and feed it to the player, and you have a free
solution.

QEMU these days (I'm following it closely) is very different
application from VMWare. All what VMWare does is let you run your
favorite X86 based OS as a guest with some services to your host OS
(USB, Parallel, sound, Network, etc..), while QEMU let you install and
run many more OS's for totally different processors, be it: ARM,
Sparc32, Sparc64, MIPS 4K, PowerPC, etc in 2 ways: either in
user-level mode or system level mode. It's far from perfect, but it's
continuely being developed.

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 interesting feature: 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, but it's surely a good feature for testing your SMP
development, and it's not available on any other competing
applications.

Thanks,
Hetz

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