Out of curiosity: what are "Likely Comment #1"? And "Likely Comment #2"?
Cheers,
Diana
Jan Just Keijser wrote:
> Sigh... this was "Likely Comment #3" on my list when I sent out the
> email....
>
> I choose to use VMware because I already had some experience with the
> product *and* because it is quite easy to develop and maintain the
> images using the (commercial) VMware Workstation software that I have on
> my PC here.
> Also, the differences between the usage of QEmu and VMware Player are
> minimal: either you use the totally free QEmu and take a performance hit
> of 5 to 10 (i.e. it runs 5 to 10 times slower than without using any
> virtual machine software) or use QEmu+QEmu Accelerator. In the latter
> case you get roughly the same performance as VMware Player but you also
> get the same restrictions: it is a freely downloadable but closed source
> product that you are not allowed to distribute. Similar things apply to
> Microsoft's Virtual PC (soon to be free).
> As for Xen... that is not supported yet by other OS'es than Linux 2.6 ,
> especially not by Windows users, which was our target audience for the
> VMware images.
>
> cheers,
>
> Jan Just Keijser
> NIKHEF / VL-e System Integrator
>
> Louis Poncet wrote:
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>> WHy not using Qemu it is completely FREE.
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>> Le 26 avr. 06 à 16:20, Jan Just Keijser a écrit :
>>
>>> all,
>>>
>>> we've created a VMware image with CentOS 3.7 and the LCG 2.7.0-5
>>> software pre-installed. It can be downloaded from
>>> http://poc.vl-e.nl/lcg27ui/
>>> and requires either a commercial version of VMware or the free
>>> VMware Player from
>>> http://www.vmware.com/download/player/
>>> It can be installed and used on any PC running Linux or Windows with
>>> at least 512 MB of RAM (the VMware image uses 256 MB) and with at
>>> least 2.5 GB disk space free. The lcg27ui image is approx 630 Mb in
>>> .ZIP format and approx 2.5 GB when unzipped.
>>
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