QEMU ?

[Tom Buskey]

On 11/21/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.

I have a vmware server with 6-7 VMs (not running all the time)

One VM has 6 drive images and a CD.  Some of the others have 3 or 4.
So, yes, you can have more then 4 drives.

I've tried mapping a virtual SCSI id to a physical tape drive, but
that seems to only slow down the system and not give me tape access.

I think VMs created with server can be played on the free reader but I
don't remember if I tried it.

Also, vmware has a beta of P2V available.  Convert a physical machine
running Windows to a virtual machine.  It worked on my laptop, failed
on my desktop.  YMMV.