[Bug 1865252] Re: QEMU Windows Portable Version (with HAXM accelerator and QEMU GUI)

[Thomas Huth]

QEMU, like most open source projects, relies on contributors who have
motivation, skills and available time to work on implementing particular
features. They naturally tend to focus on features that result in the
greatest benefit to their own use cases. I'm sorry, but as far as I know
there is currently nobody working on such a topic, and opening a ticket
like this won't make it happen without some new contributor to step up
to do the job. Thus I'm closing this ticket now. Feel free to re-open if
you know someone who could contribute this feature.

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  QEMU Windows Portable Version (with HAXM accelerator and QEMU GUI)

Status in QEMU:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Please consider providing a QEMU Windows portable [1] [2] [3] version
  on official qemu.org.

  Reasons:

  * This would improve usability, the out of the box user experience of laymen 
(non-technical) users.
  * Linux distributions could add the QEMU Windows portable to their installer 
/ live ISO images (and the DVD's autorun.inf). Users who are still running on 
the Windows platform could be having an easy path to try out a Linux 
distribution by running int inside QEMU. I've seen that in many some years ago. 
Was running Windows. Just open the DVD drive in Windows explorer, double click 
and QEMU (shipped with the ISO) booted the ISO.

  Ideally EMU Windows portable version would be bundled with:

  * the [QEMU HAXM accelerator] by default. Related ticket: [5]
  * a QEMU GUI by default. Related ticket: [6]

  
  [1] When I say "Windows Portable" I mean "USB portable". [4]

  [2] A compress archive (zip or so) which after extraction can be
  executed without further installation / setup required. As far I know
  [https://portableapps.com portableapps.com] is the most popular
  project of that kind.

  [3] QEMU might already be portable or mostly portable. See:

  * https://portableapps.com/search/node/QEMU
  * 
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aportableapps.com%20QEMU%20portable
  * https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=640
  * https://willhaley.com/blog/simple-portable-linux-qemu-vm-usb/

  But not sure above projects are still maintained. Would be certainly
  better if official qemu.org would be providing a QEMU Windows portable
  version.

  [4] Or more generally "can be run on any external storage medium on
  any Windows [10] computer.

  [5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1864955

  [6] https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1865248

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