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Re: VMware packaging



* Uwe Hermann (uwe@hermann-uwe.de) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 01:36:35PM +0300, Linas ??virblis wrote:
> > Oh come one guys. So instead of providing QEMU + QEMU Acclerator, a
> > partially free solution, we just go for totally non-free one? VMware was
> > not an option when there actually was no alternative to it, so why is it
> > an option now?
> > 
> > I know that QEMU Accelerator is not distributable, [...]
> 
> There's a free replacement, see http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/qvm86/.
> It's probably in an early stage of development, but it's there.

Looking at the CVS it hasn't been touched in a year, with a bug open
saying it doesn't work with qemu 0.8.0.
 
> See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322344.


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