[ros-dev] Yet another VM

[Nathan Lane]

I'll probably get another weird email from the postmaster for this, but
it is sufficient to me to say that the GPL allows commercial ventures to
include code without the requirement of making the product open source.
There are a few rules though - and I'm not the one to ask about those,
but I know of many companies that include GPL code in their product
without the need to make their product open source.

Nathan

-----Original Message-----
From: ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org]
On Behalf Of Alex Ionescu
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:41 AM
To: ReactOS Development List
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Yet another VM

Colin Finck wrote:
> Thanks for the information.
> 
> This VM seems to be very good.
> I also did not test it, but looked at the screenshots: VirtualBox
supports
> multiple snapshots and the closed-source version, which is also
available at
> no price for personal use, also supports USB devices. You can connect
to
> virtual machines over RDP and the virtual USB ports will also be
available
> through RDP.
> The closed-source version also has some unique features like mounting
iSCSI
> targets as virtual disks. AFAIK no other Workstation virtualization
product
> supports this at the moment.
> 
> In my opinion, we should support VirtualBox as a new testing platform
for
> ReactOS, since it contains more features than QEMU and is open-source
unlike
> VMware.
> It would also be easier to use for new users, who did not run a PC
emulator
> before.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Colin

It's funny how you're all going on about how good it is without even
having tested it.

QEmu supports multiple snapshots as well, as it does USB, and it's fully
open source. QEmu supports named pipes, mounting raw hard drives and any
other disk that Windows can see, audio, networking etc. So I don't think
it contains anywhere near as many features as QEMU, especially since
most of the advanced ones you mentionned are *not* Open Source.

I'm also quite curious on how they were able to take QEMU (a GPL
product) and add USB support under closed source (which QEMU already has
as GPL). Sounds like a bunch of hacks to me.

-- 
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Project Lead, TinyKRNL
Kernel-Mode Software Design Engineer, ReactOS
_______________________________________________
Ros-dev mailing list
Ros-dev at reactos.org
http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev