Virtualization space getting interesting

Sat Oct 22 09:29:55 PDT 2005

> So basically, it sounds like I could put up my rhel4 image somewhere and
> let people download it ... right? (well, modulo the rhel4 licensing issues,
> of course :) )

s/rhel/centos/g

Sure!  :)  Also note that qemu exists; it's a free virtual machine with
optional emulator with several hosts and targets including ia32, ppc, sparc,
arm, etc.  It can also be hosted on MacOS and Windows.  A native kernelspace
accelerator is available for Linux hosts.  But it can run in pure userspace.  I
booted ppc linux on an ia32 host with no visible performance problems as far as
the boot process goes.  The Darwine project has fused Qemu and Wine for running
win32 apps seminatively on MacOS.

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/  <-- home site

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU  <-- quick abstract with pro/con list

Qemu can make use of vmware disk images as well.  I am not sure if that's by
using them directly or by only converting them though.

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