[Qemu-devel] Re: Unmaintained QEMU builds

[Andreas Färber]

Am 05.09.2010 um 17:41 schrieb Paolo Bonzini:

> The main thing is what you wrote in another message: what can QEMU  
> offer on Windows and Darwin that semi-free Virtual Box and  
> proprietary VMware cannot?  I like to think that it can offer  
> something, but maybe I'm wrong. :/

On Darwin/ppc64, I'm using QEMU for emulation of ppc, sparc and less  
common x86. There's no real competitor. My management tool is bash  
though.

On Darwin/x86, VirtualBox has a foreign Qt-based UI. In terms of the  
machine's GUI itself it shouldn't be too hard to compete with some  
extensions to the Cocoa frontend (was going to look into that, QMP  
might make this less invasive).
VMware Fusion and Parallels are not free.

Never used it on Windows. I guess it's more the unique emulation  
capabilities it has to offer.

Andreas