From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 15 08:49:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ADDE16A4DF for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:49:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) Received: from hunter.Sisis.de (hunter.sisis.de [193.31.11.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD3343D49 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:49:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) Received: (from mail@localhost) by hunter.Sisis.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21628; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:46:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) Received: from ppp-62-245-208-16.dynamic.mnet-online.de(62.245.208.16) by hunter.Sisis.de via smap (V2.1) id xmaa21622; Tue, 15 Aug 06 10:46:06 +0200 Received: (from guru@localhost) by rebelion.Sisis.de (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k7F8nDhj020378; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:49:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) X-Authentication-Warning: rebelion.Sisis.de: guru set sender to m.apitz@oclcpica.org using -f Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:49:13 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: Peter Message-ID: <20060815084912.GA20198@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20060815074333.9877.qmail@web35613.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060815082708.69364.qmail@web60111.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20060815082708.69364.qmail@web60111.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (i386) Cc: Girish Venkatachalam , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: vmware on freebsd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:49:31 -0000 El día Tuesday, August 15, 2006 a las 04:27:07AM -0400, Peter escribió: > I am not attached to any one product. I would prefer to go the OSS > route. What limitations does qemu have? Can you connect to the guest > machines remotely? How can you say it is better than vmware if you > have never used it? Thanks for any comments you may have. > > Peter I run Qemu for a long time in my FreeBSD 6.0-REL laptop to fire up, if I need to do, a XP box or to give talks about the installation of a FreeBSD just doing this in a Qemu virtual machine. Of course you can connect from the underlaying host system or from anywhere else, for example with SSH, to the guest system in Qemu, properly routing setup must done of course before. matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC PICA GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://guru.UnixLand.de/