QEMU ?

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Tue Nov 21 19:20:49 EST 2006


Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:

> Quoting Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org>:
>
>> On 11/21/2006 03:41 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
>>>> Is VMWare capable of using more than 3 disk images *and* a cdrom
>>>> image?
>>>
>>>  In general, I'm pretty sure the answer is "Yes".
>>>
>>>  Whether the "free" VMware Server product is crippled with arbitrary
>>> limits, I have no idea.
>> I've used two concurrent images under the gratis VMWare Server and I
>> might have used three.  You can assign ISOs to be shown to the VMs as a
>> CD-ROM and you can change it on the fly.
>
> I think it depends on your definition of "crippled."  According to
> http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=511834 the
> VMware-server free product can run up to 64 running VMs per host.

I'm not looking to run multiple VMs, I'm looking to have a single VM
think there are 4 hard drives and 1 cdrom, but in reality, all are
images on a single physical drive in the host system.  This is
something QEMU can't do.  It's limited to 3 hds and a cdrom.
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Seeya,
Paul
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