On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:08:29PM +1200, Don Gould wrote: > It seems that getting vmware up and running is more complex than qemu, > but if it runs faster then there's a benefit.
Well, it's the same procedural steps for both, but you get different levels of support in working out what the procedure is supposed to be. VMWare player is only supposed to run images created elsewhere, so there is no help in figuring out how to set it up. Qemu is a far more complicated beast (you can emulate different CPU types), so the documentation discusses all your options first. As far as the speed issues are concerned, VMWare ESX Server (the $$$ one) is apparently a hypervisor, but I'm not sure what VMWare Player is. It's certainly not an emulator, it's too fast for that. Qemu *is* an emulator, unless you install the accelerator, in which case it becomes something closer to a hypervisor. In any case, it's results that matter in your case, not theory. -jim
