Re: VMware packaging
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 01:59:57AM +0100, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 02:25:59AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > Le dim 13 août 2006 02:06, Peter Collingbourne a écrit :
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I found there were no VMware-related packages in the official
> > > repository, nor any way of creating them. Thus I propose to create
> > > a tool that will build (for example for VMware Server) vmware-server
> > > and vmware-modules-source packages based on an installation tarball
> > > (a la java-package).
> >
> > why would we need it when there is already quite plenty of good free
> > alternatives (qemu, bochs e.g.) ?
>
> To provide choice to the user perhaps? I myself use qemu but some may
> need features such as suspend/resume.
Ctrl-Alt-2
stop
savevm <filename>
quit
there, suspended. To restart:
qemu -S
Ctrl-Alt-2
loadvm <filename>
c
There, done.
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Fun will now commence
-- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4
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