It seems to me you missed the most important qemu feature. That is qemu will emulate different processors. Just try running an PPC version of Linux on an x86 with VMWARE. To my knowledge the only other programs that can do this are either very expensive or extremely slow.
BillOn 7/28/06, Udo 'Ro
On Fri, 28.07.06, Udo 'Robos' Puetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi List.
I'll write this here instead of answering to each to keep the noise down :)
Thanks a lot for the good ideas and comments!
I'll simply collect the ideas and leave my cynical comments about lazy readers
of computer magazines to
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:58:06 +0200
Udo 'Robos' Puetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Soo, do you have any more ideas what qemu can what the (free)
> alternatives from M$/VMWare can't?
Well, in addition to system emulation qemu that I'd guess most users
want qemu for, it has "user" emulation where yo
Soo, do you have any more ideas what qemu can what the (free) alternatives
from M$/VMWare can't?
I must admit I haven't used Virtual PC and have no idea about what it
can do, but I tried VMWare.
In terms of using, apart from the source code, I think the biggest
advantage of QEMU is the amount o
Oliver Gerlich wrote:
> So, IMHO you shouldn't try to praise Qemu as an end-user desktop
> virtualization software; presenting it to more technical users seems
> like a better idea.
Not necessarily. It is true that QEMU offers a load of features that
technical users will enjoy, but also various d
Udo 'Robos' Puetz wrote:
> Soo, do you have any more ideas what qemu can what the (free) alternatives
> from M$/VMWare can't?
>
Qemu can be used without the need to install anything, which is
especially useful if you put a preconfigured OS image plus qemu
binaries (for different host OS') and s
Udo 'Robos' Puetz wrote:
Hi List.
I'm in contact with one of the writers for the german (large) computer
magazine c't (computer and technology) defending qemu (he neglected some
features qemu has in one of his articles). Now he asks me for an article
about what the "average user" would benefit fr
Hi List.
I'm in contact with one of the writers for the german (large) computer
magazine c't (computer and technology) defending qemu (he neglected some
features qemu has in one of his articles). Now he asks me for an article
about what the "average user" would benefit from when he would use qemu i
