Am Freitag, den 26.01.2007, 22:53 +0100 schrieb Daniel de Kok:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:27:21 -0700 "Stephen John Smoogen" smooge@gmail.com wrote:
As a hear and now.. vmware-player images of Centos-2.1/3.8/4.4 could be made.
That should be no problem, IMO it would be nice if this could be done in an automated manner. Since qemu-img can create VMWare disk images, this could be done without VMWare Workstation or Server.
Another way is to use the flat disk image that can be also used by Xen and UML. VMware calls that image-layout "monolithicFlat". So automation is easy again, just some losetup/fdisk/grub-magic.
Pro: one image for different VMMs; no need for qemu-img
Con: flat disk images waste space on filesystems which don't know sparse files (NTFS?)
/nils.