Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 23:04, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 17.03.2014 22:42, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 17.03.2014 22:02, schrieb Poison BL.: I suspect you don't have a WinPE bootable handy (UBCD in particular has the tools handy for this, Hiren's as well), but if you happened to magic one

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 17 March 2014 18:27:42 CET, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Is it correct that vmware-server is out of portage? I have to migrate and upgrade an old box again and it is running kernel 2.6.25 ... now I have 3.10.25 and realise that it won't compile/run vmware-server ... *sigh* So

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 17 March 2014 18:44:15 CET, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On 17 March 2014 18:27:42 CET, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Is it correct that vmware-server is out of portage? I have to migrate and upgrade an old box again and it is running kernel 2.6.25 ... now I have

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 18:46, schrieb J. Roeleveld: Yep, just checked wikipedia. Got deprecated. Last version dates back to 2009. Yes, I also remember somehow ... so the evening will be spent with installing KVM and migrating 2 VMs ... tmrw morning they expect the services to run. How I love mondays

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 17 March 2014 18:48:56 CET, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 17.03.2014 18:46, schrieb J. Roeleveld: Yep, just checked wikipedia. Got deprecated. Last version dates back to 2009. Yes, I also remember somehow ... so the evening will be spent with installing KVM and migrating 2

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 18:53, schrieb J. Roeleveld: Good luck. Mondays are always fun for that. I always prefer weekends for migrations like this. I wasn't asked. The motherboard and power supply were dead this morning. And the customer had nothing else at hand ... so I had to plug the disks into

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 17 March 2014 19:03:07 CET, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 17.03.2014 18:53, schrieb J. Roeleveld: Good luck. Mondays are always fun for that. I always prefer weekends for migrations like this. I wasn't asked. The motherboard and power supply were dead this morning. And

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 19:30, schrieb J. Roeleveld: I know. It usually comes at the least convenient moment. I do think it's the customers' fault for not keeping up with normal maintenance schedules. Most companies write off hardware after 3-4 years. The support contract with the supplier ended in

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, March 17, 2014 19:35, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 17.03.2014 19:30, schrieb J. Roeleveld: I know. It usually comes at the least convenient moment. I do think it's the customers' fault for not keeping up with normal maintenance schedules. Most companies write off hardware after 3-4

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 20:30, schrieb J. Roeleveld: I've been planning to try KVM as well, but am wondering how snapshots work with KVM. Not been able to find anything about that apart from disk-snapshots. No info if it's possible to take a copy of the memory as well. I run KVM in combo with LVM

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 20:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Does anyone know if there is a trick applying these drivers *without* having a running VMware-Server? This link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/FAQ#How_to_convert_VMware_machines_to_virt-manager.3F says it should be possible to repair

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 17 March 2014 20:52:29 CET, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 17.03.2014 20:30, schrieb J. Roeleveld: I've been planning to try KVM as well, but am wondering how snapshots work with KVM. Not been able to find anything about that apart from disk-snapshots. No info if it's

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 21:15, schrieb J. Roeleveld: Does anyone know if there is a trick applying these drivers *without* having a running VMware-Server? Try vmware player or vmware workstationon your own machine? ... vmware-player and/or modules don't compile here on my latest kernel 3.13.x

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 17 March 2014 21:18:37 CET, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 17.03.2014 21:15, schrieb J. Roeleveld: Does anyone know if there is a trick applying these drivers *without* having a running VMware-Server? Try vmware player or vmware workstationon your own machine? ...

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Poison BL.
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 17.03.2014 20:30, schrieb J. Roeleveld: I've been planning to try KVM as well, but am wondering how snapshots work with KVM. Not been able to find anything about that apart from disk-snapshots. No info if it's

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 22:02, schrieb Poison BL.: I suspect you don't have a WinPE bootable handy (UBCD in particular has the tools handy for this, Hiren's as well), but if you happened to magic one up, there's a quick script called Fix IDE (or Fix HDC which does similar) that reverts to the generic

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 22:42, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 17.03.2014 22:02, schrieb Poison BL.: I suspect you don't have a WinPE bootable handy (UBCD in particular has the tools handy for this, Hiren's as well), but if you happened to magic one up, there's a quick script called Fix IDE (or Fix

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2014-02-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-19 11:22 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: vmware-tools: I have tested open-vm-tools but now I'm running my VMs without them because every kernel upgrade was a real pain in a**. Jarry - can you elaborate on this? I'm trying to see why updating the kernel would be a problem, as

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation environment on Gentoo

2014-01-13 Thread Adam Carter
I cannot access my gentoo box right now, so I can't tell you exactly how many vmnet interface I have. But from what I remember, I have two vmnet: vmnet0 for bridge and vmnet1 for NAT. I am creating several interface on vmware-netcfg, but those interface not connected to physical interface (as

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation environment on Gentoo

2014-01-12 Thread J.Marcos Sitorus
Hi Adam, Thank you for your reply. Are you using genkernel or configure your own kernel? If you configure you're own kernel, what kernel option did you enable related to Vmware/virtualization? Do you mind send me kernel config file? What useflag did you use to compile Vmware Workstation? On

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation environment on Gentoo

2014-01-12 Thread J.Marcos Sitorus
On 1/1/14, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some special configuration to make VMware Workstation on gentoo support virtual machines with more than one NIC? No, it just works. I have some windows vms with multiple nics Hi Adam, Thank you for your reply. Are you using

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation environment on Gentoo

2014-01-12 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:04 PM, J.Marcos Sitorus gkj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Adam, Thank you for your reply. Are you using genkernel or configure your own kernel? If you configure you're own kernel, what kernel option did you enable related to Vmware/virtualization? Do you mind send me

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation environment on Gentoo

2014-01-12 Thread J.Marcos Sitorus
On 1/13/14, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:04 PM, J.Marcos Sitorus gkj...@gmail.com wrote: I configured my own kernel. The vmware-modules ebuild will tell you if you're missing any kernel options that you need. Vmware-modules installed successfully on my

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-player-6.0.0.1295980 and gnome?

2013-12-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.12.2013 10:08, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: greets ... I was curious again and unmasked the hardmasked gnome-3.10-stuff as mentioned in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486484 So far it works fine on both my desktop and thinkpad. The only issue I see right now is

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-player-6.0.0.1295980 and gnome?

2013-12-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/12/2013 19:29, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 27.12.2013 10:08, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: greets ... I was curious again and unmasked the hardmasked gnome-3.10-stuff as mentioned in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486484 So far it works fine on both my desktop and

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-player-6.0.0.1295980 and gnome?

2013-12-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.12.2013 22:37, schrieb Alan McKinnon: I'd second that idea. In the big picture, vbox works better for me all round: - I can create VMs in the app just like workstation does but without having to pay the workstation license - virtualbox-modules practically always just builds fine even

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-19 11:22 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: vmware-tools: I have tested open-vm-tools but now I'm running my VMs without them because every kernel upgrade was a real pain in a**. And trully I did not see any benefit in running vm-tools (maybe it would be different on desktop). For

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, April 20, 2013 18:06, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Apr 19, 2013 11:14 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:i SNIPPED Pandu. Do you still use xend on your Xen hosts? I thought that was deprecated? Ah, sorry. What I meant was xstools daemon. It's necessary to properly monitor Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Fri, April 19, 2013 18:42, Jarry wrote: On 19-Apr-13 17:52, Pandu Poluan wrote: Well, for me, XenServer-based virtualization is very very simple. And if I compile the kernel with all Xen PV (paravirtualized) 'FrontEnds', it runs near-natively. Only the xend daemon need some 'tweaking' to

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 19, 2013 11:14 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:i Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 20, 2013 9:31 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Fri, April 19, 2013 18:42, Jarry wrote: On 19-Apr-13 17:52, Pandu Poluan wrote: Well, for me, XenServer-based virtualization is very very simple. And if I compile the kernel with all Xen PV (paravirtualized) 'FrontEnds',

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Jarry
On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting a new gentoo vm up and running on my esxi host this weekend.

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting a new gentoo vm up and

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Jarry
On 19-Apr-13 17:52, Pandu Poluan wrote: Well, for me, XenServer-based virtualization is very very simple. And if I compile the kernel with all Xen PV (paravirtualized) 'FrontEnds', it runs near-natively. Only the xend daemon need some 'tweaking' to run properly. Do a Google search for gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Kvothe Tech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Player 5.0.2

2013-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 10.04.2013 13:04, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Does anybody in here run mentioned VMware Player 5.0.2 with latest gentoo-sources-3.8.6 ? It fails to even start here ... says Abgebrochen (german ... maybe Cancelled in english?) ... This seems related:

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-tools and revdep-rebuild

2012-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:35:47 +0200 Matthias Hanft m...@hanft.de wrote: Hello, after upgrading the kernel on a Gentoo machine which is a VMWare guest, I also upgraded vmware-tools (this means, emerge the package, mount the .iso with -o loop, and run ./INSTALL). Basically, no problem as

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-tools and revdep-rebuild

2012-08-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:57:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: man rebdep-rebuild for details That's a bad cold you've got, Alan ;-) -- Neil Bothwick .-Stealth Tagline signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-tools and revdep-rebuild

2012-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:33:24 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:57:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: man rebdep-rebuild for details That's a bad cold you've got, Alan ;-) Oh dear, yet another typo. At this rate, I'll be losing my grammar-nazi

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-23 7:11 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-06-22 12:26 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I missed that piece. I presumed there would be writes to the hard disk. Any reason you can't have these guys netboot? Only that I've never done that before with

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 12:26 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I missed that piece. I presumed there would be writes to the hard disk. Any reason you can't have these guys netboot? Only that I've never done that before with servers, and my only experience with netbooting at all was with

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I could get 2 of these for each server, each with a mirrored pair of CF (or SD) cards (mirror mode is defined by a jumper or switch on the

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: But, there is nothing keeping you from getting mirrored CF/SD cards for the hypervisor boot Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered best/most stable - SD or CF...

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: But, there is nothing keeping you from getting mirrored CF/SD cards for the hypervisor boot Also, my questions was more just to which

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 11:00 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered best/most stable - SD or CF... Ultimately they both probably have the same

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-06-22 11:00 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org  wrote: Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-21 Thread Matthew Marlowe
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I could get 2 of these for each server, each with a mirrored pair of CF (or SD) cards (mirror mode is defined by a jumper or switch on the adapter), then mirror those (in the BIOS), which would result in a total of FOUR

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-19 10:28 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: CF is really behind the times. Really? Nothing I've read indicates that - can you point me to something that discusses how/why Cf is 'behind the times'? I'm serious, I just ordered the CF adapter/cards, but I'm fully prepared to

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi everyone, Ok, here's my dilemma... I have some new Dell R515 servers (12 bay versions). These do not have any Dell supported internal SD (or CF) card options for the hypervisor, but they do have an internal 2.5

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:47:10 -0400 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi everyone, Ok, here's my dilemma... I have some new Dell R515 servers (12 bay versions). These do not have any Dell supported internal SD (or CF) card options for the hypervisor, but they do have an internal

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-19 9:56 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: With my last batch of ESX hosts, someone forgot to order the R710 SD internal add-on. But it has 8 x 600M SAS drives So what I did is configured all drives as a RAID 10 and let ESX grab enough for the hypervisor and leave

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-06-19 9:56 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: With my last batch of ESX hosts, someone forgot to order the R710 SD internal add-on. But it has 8 x 600M SAS drives So what I did is

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.10.2011 18:47, schrieb Mark Knecht: Gentoo hosts run KVM, in there virtual Windows-machines for various specific software they need. Stable so far. Good to know. Maybe I'll give it a try. reply 2, new thoughts (perspective: running *one* Windows-XP-VM on a desktop-machine, for some

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.10.2011 23:14, schrieb Mark Knecht: I've decided to stick with vmware-player-3.1.4 for use as a Netflix VM only. All of my real work is done in Virtualbox VMs using both 32-bit NT and 64-bit Win 7. The only problem I've had recently is that my dual monitor Win 7 VM tends to 'abort'

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 05:53, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 19.10.2011 23:14, schrieb Mark Knecht: I've decided to stick with vmware-player-3.1.4 for use as a Netflix VM only. All of my real work is done in Virtualbox VMs using both 32-bit NT and 64-bit Win 7. The only

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.10.2011 11:56, schrieb Andrey Moshbear: I stay w/ vmware-player-3.1.5 for now (out of vmware-overlay). I've had rather pleasant experiences with virtualbox. Less libhell/libnazism, too. Plus, less drivers to modprobe (just vboxdrv, vboxnet as needed) instead of the 4 or so needed for

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 20.10.2011 11:56, schrieb Andrey Moshbear: I stay w/ vmware-player-3.1.5 for now (out of vmware-overlay). I've had rather pleasant experiences with virtualbox. Less libhell/libnazism, too. Plus, less drivers to

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.10.2011 15:00, schrieb Mark Knecht: I've wanted to try out the Linux KVM stuff but watching the development list gave me the feeling it wasn't stable enough to depend on day to day. I have that stuff out at customers. Gentoo hosts run KVM, in there virtual Windows-machines for various

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 20.10.2011 15:00, schrieb Mark Knecht: I've wanted to try out the Linux KVM stuff but watching the development list gave me the feeling it wasn't stable enough to depend on day to day. I have that stuff out at

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.10.2011 18:47, schrieb Mark Knecht: The following is more for my own to do list. Feel free to respond if you know of a good Gentoo oriented web page for using KVM. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KVM ? - I believe I've read that somehow I can convert my VMware Player image to

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 14.10.2011 00:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Anyone hitting the same issue? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6824432.html?sid=ff31450ec4a661979b3545e662bdfbb1 AFAI understand glibc-2.13-r4 (as in ~amd64 right now) is too new for the vmware-binary? Did I understand correctly?

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 14.10.2011 00:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Anyone hitting the same issue? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6824432.html?sid=ff31450ec4a661979b3545e662bdfbb1  AFAI understand glibc-2.13-r4 (as in ~amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware opengl

2011-06-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi list, I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how the latest DMs are coming along. The current KDE4 is

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware opengl

2011-06-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi list, I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-player w/ linux-2.6.39

2011-05-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.05.2011 23:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Just wanted to point you vmware-users to a patch for vmware-modules: http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/2011/05/14/running-vmware-workstation-player-on-linux-2-6-39-updated/ Built my own little ebuild in an overlay, now vmware-player

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:43 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: Hi, When starting VMware-Player I get the following message: The host's Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled. Multiprocessor virtual machines exhibit degraded performance without

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: Hi all, looking for some serious vmware debugging help!  I've had vmware-workstation working for ages, but sometime this year (ok I use it sporadically!) it's stopped.  I don't know if its the old GTK issue or what.  

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
My principle for using vmware on Gentoo is; use the latest vmware, do not use the latest kernel. I'm using Workstation 7.1.2, which works well with 2.6.34, also works with 2.6.35 (but wants to rebuild one kernel module every time it runs, which I havent tried to fix).

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fail - malloc other wierd errors

2010-09-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
it's always the way, but I have vmplayer running now, by some magic set of events: sudo emerge --config vmware-player sudo /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmplayer (didn't work) VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmplayer the final command worked, where it didn't before, so I don't get why. Now to try

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.04.2010 18:55, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: It's not THAT bad here, but the XP-guest takes a while to boot, yes. Right now I simply don't shutdown the guest and hibernate-to-ram the whole linux-box. I moved the VM from a LV formatted with XFS to another LV formatted with ext4 (both

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-04-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 29.04.2010 20:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 18.03.2010 22:16, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 13.03.2010 19:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors with smartmontools. Other than that the only thing I can think of is

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-04-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.04.2010 16:41, schrieb Florian Philipp: I just want to tell you that I experience similar problems with vmware-player. Good to hear that ... in a way. I'm currently on kernel 2.6.32. The guest system is a Ubuntu with an Oracle Express database (used for a database lecture I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-04-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.03.2010 22:16, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 13.03.2010 19:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors with smartmontools. Other than that the only thing I can think of is something like a performance regression in the

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.03.2010 19:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors with smartmontools. Other than that the only thing I can think of is something like a performance regression in the ide/scsi/sata controller (on host or virtual) or mdadm on

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.03.2010 23:37, schrieb Kyle Bader: If the elevated iowait from iostat is on the host you might be able to find something hogging you io bandwidth with iotop. Also look for D state procs with ps auxr. Are you on a software raid? Yes, sw-raid level 1, two SATA-disks. iotop points to

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.03.2010 16:54, schrieb Kyle Bader: If you use the cfq scheduler (linux default) you might try turning off low latency mode (introduced in 2.6.32): Echo 0 /sys/class/block/device name/queue/iosched/low_latency http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32 That sounded good, but

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-12 Thread Kyle Bader
If the elevated iowait from iostat is on the host you might be able to find something hogging you io bandwidth with iotop. Also look for D state procs with ps auxr. Are you on a software raid? If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors with smartmontools. Other than

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-11 Thread Kyle Bader
If you use the cfq scheduler (linux default) you might try turning off low latency mode (introduced in 2.6.32): Echo 0 /sys/class/block/device name/queue/iosched/low_latency http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32 On 3/10/10, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Recently I see bad

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-workstation from vmware overlay broken digest

2010-03-01 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 01 March 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If any dev from the vmware overlay reads this, please fix this one: Calculating dependencies / * Digest verification failed: * /var/lib/layman/vmware/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/vmware-workstation- 7.0.1.227600.ebuild * Reason: Failed

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-tools has broken lib

2009-12-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:25:57 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: the system seems working well, but it is really annoying seeing them every time. is there any way to resolve this? or can i tel revdep-rebuild not to check these files? echo /usr/lib64/vmware-tools/lib64 /etc/revdep-rebuild/90-vmware-tools

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-tools has broken lib

2009-12-24 Thread Xi Shen
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:25:57 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: the system seems working well, but it is really annoying seeing them every time. is there any way to resolve this? or can i tel revdep-rebuild not to check these files?

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server 2 - login/password

2009-10-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Krzysztof Poc schrieb: Hello Is there any default gentoo password vor vmware server 2.0.1.156745-r3. I'm trying root/password and user/password an none of them works. PLEASE HELP ME :) You have to use a user which is member of the group vmware. Try gpasswd -a user vmware and then login

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server error log

2009-09-05 Thread William Kenworthy
You still need to post messages from further back - this is still the results, not the cause. Also, does 1.0.0.15 support later kernels? - I am using 1.0.0.25 and workstation 6.5 with 2.6.28 - and even there had to use the layman vmware overlay. vmware usually lags behind current kernels, and

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server error log

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey William, Thanks again for your help I have attached the complete build log file. I know with the layman overlay vmware-server 2 is easily done but I woule rather vmware-server 1x. I know there are a few pathces for this I just want to make sure after shcking with you guys what I should do.

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server error log

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Now for the real build log (oops) vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2.ebuild Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server error log

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Khamis
Arghhh to early in the morining here in Toronto. This is the build.log build.log Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Nick Khamis schrieb: * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options... * CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS: is not set when it should be. You have to recompile your kernel after setting the parameter CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS=y with make menuconfig in /usr/src/linux or genkernel --menuconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hey Stefan, I figured that much, I am in .config - Linux Kernel v2.6.30-gentoo-r5 Configuration right now and I cannot find CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS. Where the hell is this things. Thanks In Advanced! Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Xavier Parizet
Nick Khamis a écrit : Hey Stefan, I figured that much, I am in .config - Linux Kernel v2.6.30-gentoo-r5 Configuration right now and I cannot find CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS. Where the hell is this things. To search for a specific CONFIG_ in the kernel config, on make menuconfig, type '/' key to

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I moddified the CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS paramter and when trying to emerge vmware-server I am presented with another error: * * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile *

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I moddified the CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS paramter and when trying to emerge vmware-server I am presented with another error: * * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile *

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware 1.0.9 emerge problem

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Khamis
I emerged vmware-modules with no problem but still have a hard time with vmare-server: * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 3723: Called linux-mod_src_compile *

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server error

2009-09-04 Thread Xi Shen
i am using vmware-server 2.0, and it works fine. i think you should use 2.0, too. and i think you should post the log, instead of the error message, so maybe some one can help you. On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Nick Khamissym...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Everyone, I emerged vmware-modules with

RE: [gentoo-user] vmware install error

2009-04-23 Thread 김무성
] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:47 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install error 2009/4/22 김무성 ki...@infosec.co.kr: My kernel version is 2.6.27-gentoo-r10 And I try to install VMware-server-1.0.9 Up-to-date gcc. When I install vmware-server, ./vmware

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install error

2009-04-23 Thread Kan-I Jyo
2009/4/23 김무성 ki...@infosec.co.kr: in /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules/Changelog it seems that 1.0.0.23 don't support kernel2.6.27. right? 1.0.0.23 does support kernel 2.6.27, according to the change log. In your case, as you can see from the 'emerge' output, it is the vmware-server

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install error

2009-04-22 Thread Kan-I Jyo
2009/4/22 김무성 ki...@infosec.co.kr: My kernel version is 2.6.27-gentoo-r10 And I try to install VMware-server-1.0.9 Up-to-date gcc. When I install vmware-server, ./vmware-install.pl there is an error. This is error information

RE: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Carter
I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that says click anywhere to open the console nothing happens. I've not used v2

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Adam Carter adam.car...@optus.com.auwrote: I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that

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