[Bug 1865252] [NEW] QEMU Windows Portable Version (with HAXM accelerator and QEMU GUI)

2020-02-28 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Public bug reported: Please consider providing a QEMU Windows portable [1] [2] [3] version on official qemu.org. Reasons: * This would improve usability, the out of the box user experience of laymen (non-technical) users. * Linux distributions could add the QEMU Windows portable to their

[Bug 1865248] [NEW] bundle QEMU installer with a QEMU GUI (graphical user interface) such as Virt Manager

2020-02-28 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Public bug reported: For a better out of the box user experience on the Windows platform it would be nice if a QEMU GUI would be by installed by the same QEMU installer. Currently it is required to first install QEMU and then install a QEMU GUI. I don't know all QEMU GUIs but looks like Virt

[Bug 1864955] Re: bundle QEMU installer with HAXM accelerator for Windows

2020-02-27 Thread Patrick Schleizer
I think licensing is a non-issue. That is probably a quote from the github license summary at https://github.com/intel/haxm/blob/master/LICENSE > A permissive license similar to the BSD 2-Clause License, but with a 3rd clause that prohibits others from using the name of the project or its

[Bug 1864955] [NEW] bundle QEMU installer with HAXM accelerator for Windows

2020-02-26 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Public bug reported: As you probably know HAXM is an accelerator for Windows. https://www.qemu.org/2017/11/22/haxm-usage-windows/ Currently it is required to first install QEMU and then install HAXM. For a better out of the box user experience on the Windows platform it would be nice if QEMU

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1253465] Re: qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

2017-01-07 Thread Patrick Schleizer
> If you are aware of open source software which already supports version 3, please let us know! VirtualBox can. - VirtualBox uses VMDK version 3 disks. - When you export a VM with VirtualBox (creating an .ova), it will include VMDK version 3 disks. - VirtualBox can convert from vmkd to vdi.