Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
on 02/05/2008 10:21 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since. Is the host on a wired or wireless network? I found bridged wouldn't work over wireless, so I use NAT on my laptop. I don't know if this is relevant, but two things: 1. The VMware devices that are used are VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter #5 (for NAT on vmnet8) and VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter #4 (for eth0 on vmnet0). I wonder why they aren't assigned to adapters in the range 0-3? I never see adapter #0 or #1, even when I use WinXP's Device Manager (with hidden devices visible). 2. There is a Gentoo directory called /etc/vmware/vmnet8, but no directory /etc/vmware0. Yes, the eth0 bridge is up: $ ps -efww | fgrep bridge == root 30055 1 0 09:32 ? 00:00:00 \ /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmnet-bridge -d \ /var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid /dev/vmnet0 eth0 /dev/vmnet0 exists and has the same owner and permissions as /dev/vmnet8. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
on 02/05/2008 10:21 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since. Is the host on a wired or wireless network? I found bridged wouldn't work over wireless, so I use NAT on my laptop I have both, but bridged networking (for me) works with neither. With eth0, I get a Limited Connectivity state in WinXP; with ath0 (D-Link DWL-G650 PC card) I get Disabled. I recently tried the vanilla 2.6.23-14 vanilla sources to see if that made a difference, but it did not. Of course I used the same .config file that I am using for my gentoo-sources kernel. If someone could send me their .config file for gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r6 that they use on a laptop, I'll give that it a try. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
on 02/07/2008 11:56 AM Vladimir G. Ivanovic said the following: 2. There is a Gentoo directory called /etc/vmware/vmnet8, but no directory /etc/vmware0. Yes, the eth0 bridge is up: should be /etc/vmwware/vmnet0 --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since. Is the host on a wired or wireless network? I found bridged wouldn't work over wireless, so I use NAT on my laptop. -- Neil Bothwick I am McCoy of Bo...Damnit! I'm a doctor, not a collective! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since. Is the host on a wired or wireless network? I found bridged wouldn't work over wireless, so I use NAT on my laptop. There is a unofficial hack discussed at http://communities.vmware.com/thread/95630?tstart=0start=0. It has worked for many but not for me. If anyone knows any other tricks, I'd be happy to hear about them. I'm using a gentoo 2.6.23-r5 kernel with the Broadcom 4311 driver. Cheers, Drew -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Friday 01 February 2008 17:03:49 Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:47 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 01 February 2008 13:21:38 Michael Sullivan wrote: Hos anyone been able to get 6.0.2 to work? Of what? I'm running app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.4.56528 with no problems. -- Rgds Peter app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.0.2 Maybe it'd be worth trying vmware-server instead? -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:47:28 + Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 February 2008 13:21:38 Michael Sullivan wrote: Hos anyone been able to get 6.0.2 to work? Yes. I posted pretty much the whole session to the list. app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.0.2.59824 is what I installed. (BTW, I started the thread. Perhaps you can find the post where I show what I ran into in your mail storage or some online archive.) Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:56:22 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and Civilization III fails because some security module can't be found... You might try a no-cd crack, if this is indeed caused by copyprotection as I suspect. I think they're legal to use (if you have a license for the game, of course) and to write/download, although there's no guarantee that you'll download the right thing and not a virus, or that it will actually help. I run all the games I can with nocd cracks anyway, so that I don't have to put in the CD. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 19:58:26 Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since. On the other hand, it's working just fine here on 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. Not much consolation, I suppose, but at least it does work some of the time, for some people. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
works fine more me, and always worked. workstation 5.5 has issues with it though, so upgrade to 6.0.x t Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 19:58:26 Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since. On the other hand, it's working just fine here on 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. Not much consolation, I suppose, but at least it does work some of the time, for some people. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:32 +0100, Pintér Tibor wrote: works fine more me, and always worked. workstation 5.5 has issues with it though, so upgrade to 6.0.x t Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 19:58:26 Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since. On the other hand, it's working just fine here on 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. Not much consolation, I suppose, but at least it does work some of the time, for some people. Hos anyone been able to get 6.0.2 to work? I tried to evaluate it, but everything crashes when I try to enter the serial number. There's an outstanding bug at b.g.o and I filed a support request about a week ago with VMWare, but they haven't touched it yet... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Friday 01 February 2008 08:21:38 am Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:32 +0100, Pintér Tibor wrote: works fine more me, and always worked. workstation 5.5 has issues with it though, so upgrade to 6.0.x t Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 19:58:26 Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since. On the other hand, it's working just fine here on 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. Not much consolation, I suppose, but at least it does work some of the time, for some people. Hos anyone been able to get 6.0.2 to work? I tried to evaluate it, but everything crashes when I try to enter the serial number. There's an outstanding bug at b.g.o and I filed a support request about a week ago with VMWare, but they haven't touched it yet... Hmmm... With all the fresh posts about vware, I too tried it recently and my results were the same as yours... clich help, enter serial number and bang... crash. I thought it was me... :') Try virtualbox... similar to vmware. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 09:40 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 01 February 2008 08:21:38 am Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:32 +0100, Pintér Tibor wrote: works fine more me, and always worked. workstation 5.5 has issues with it though, so upgrade to 6.0.x t Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 19:58:26 Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since. On the other hand, it's working just fine here on 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. Not much consolation, I suppose, but at least it does work some of the time, for some people. Hos anyone been able to get 6.0.2 to work? I tried to evaluate it, but everything crashes when I try to enter the serial number. There's an outstanding bug at b.g.o and I filed a support request about a week ago with VMWare, but they haven't touched it yet... Hmmm... With all the fresh posts about vware, I too tried it recently and my results were the same as yours... clich help, enter serial number and bang... crash. I thought it was me... :') Try virtualbox... similar to vmware. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride I did try VirtualBox, but my network games don't work (like Civilization II - my wife running Win98 can't connect to me) and Civilization III fails because some security module can't be found... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Friday 01 February 2008 13:21:38 Michael Sullivan wrote: Hos anyone been able to get 6.0.2 to work? Of what? I'm running app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.4.56528 with no problems. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:47 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 01 February 2008 13:21:38 Michael Sullivan wrote: Hos anyone been able to get 6.0.2 to work? Of what? I'm running app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.4.56528 with no problems. -- Rgds Peter app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.0.2 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On 1/30/08, Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are no special kernel requirements for server and workstation. Even though I put the support for Virtualization. People with processors for the Core 2 family or AMD with AM2 socket should do that. :-) -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
on 01/29/2008 12:28 PM Ricardo Saffi Marques said the following: On 1/29/08, *Neil Bothwick* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not the case with VMware Workstation. Exactly. That's exactly the point that I forgot to specify on my 1st message, hehehee. That's basically the main difference between them. AFAICT, the use pattern for the two is different: The VMware Workstation user is expect to work primarily with the unemulated host OS and only secondarily with the emulated guest OS, whereas the VMware Server user is expected to work (exclusively?) with an emulated OS. This means that most of the time the VMware Server user is running an application on an OS that itself is running on anther OS, whereas the VMware Workstation user is just running an application on an OS. --- Vladimir -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
on 01/29/2008 02:02 PM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:21:36 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. It's working on 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 here. I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since. Now nothing except NAT and host-only networking works. So, until this bridged networking is fixed, I cannot recommend VMware Workstation to anyone. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On 1/29/08, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not the case with VMware Workstation. Exactly. That's exactly the point that I forgot to specify on my 1st message, hehehee. That's basically the main difference between them. -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On 1/29/08, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Mike, I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. And secondly, you only get to use it for 30 days... the vmware workstation evaluation copy that is. Apply to VMware Workstation. VMware Server is free. -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 04:26:01 pm Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: On 1/29/08, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Mike, I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. And secondly, you only get to use it for 30 days... the vmware workstation evaluation copy that is. Apply to VMware Workstation. VMware Server is free. That and I believe the server package requires vm support in the cpu while the workstation does not. Cheers all. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
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[gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
Hello, folks -- Most days, I work remotely from the 'ndoze net via rdesktop when I have to access it for some reason. But the bandwidth there is getting choked as others follow suit. I'm thinking I'd have a better time of it if I just had my own little toybox -- I mean, Windows XP installation -- at home. Sure, I can dual-boot, but then I lose the whole of my reasons for having a real OS. And I'd put up another machine, but I have enough anxiety over the ones I have to maintain already. Why bring that kind of trouble into your home? So, the quick question is, is VM Ware the best way to go? I think XP is still lurking on a partition here... and I do need to run Internet Extorter, Outlook, etc... pretend I'm in their domain... At any rate, I'm hoping some on the list can give me a leg up on this. My first question is, what does this mean to me: * app-emulation/vmware-workstation Available versions: 4.5.3.19414-r7 5.5.5.56455 ~6.0.1.55017!f ~6.0.2.59824!f ... when I downloaded the evaluation license and a tar.gz, does that satisfy the !f, for example? What do I do with it, then? I do notice the version number matches. And the other question I hate to ask -- I'm pretty sure there is one, but, if there is a Gentoo HOW-TO on this process, where is it and IS IT UP TO DATE??? ;-) Any and all pointers welcome! . . . I just read through a bunch of stuff on-line, found the vmware overlay, and I feel less sure of how to proceed than before writing this. '-) Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:37:22 -0200, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: We've been using VMware Server and VMware Server Console at our lab. Everything works really good. The point is that you can't use a real phisical partition of any of your disks. You have to create a virtual disk for the guest system. That's not the case with VMware Workstation. -- Neil Bothwick Virus detected, delete Windows? (Y/n). signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
Michael Higgins wrote: Hello, folks -- Most days, I work remotely from the 'ndoze net via rdesktop when I have to access it for some reason. But the bandwidth there is getting choked as others follow suit. I'm thinking I'd have a better time of it if I just had my own little toybox -- I mean, Windows XP installation -- at home. Sure, I can dual-boot, but then I lose the whole of my reasons for having a real OS. And I'd put up another machine, but I have enough anxiety over the ones I have to maintain already. Why bring that kind of trouble into your home? So, the quick question is, is VM Ware the best way to go? I think XP is still lurking on a partition here... and I do need to run Internet Extorter, Outlook, etc... pretend I'm in their domain... At any rate, I'm hoping some on the list can give me a leg up on this. My first question is, what does this mean to me: * app-emulation/vmware-workstation Available versions: 4.5.3.19414-r7 5.5.5.56455 ~6.0.1.55017!f ~6.0.2.59824!f ... when I downloaded the evaluation license and a tar.gz, does that satisfy the !f, for example? What do I do with it, then? I do notice the version number matches. And the other question I hate to ask -- I'm pretty sure there is one, but, if there is a Gentoo HOW-TO on this process, where is it and IS IT UP TO DATE??? ;-) Any and all pointers welcome! . . . I just read through a bunch of stuff on-line, found the vmware overlay, and I feel less sure of how to proceed than before writing this. '-) Cheers, Hey Mike, I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. And secondly, you only get to use it for 30 days... the vmware workstation evaluation copy that is. Over here, I decided to go the qemu/kqemu route. Although I am only able to emerge kqemu, with qemu-softmmu failing miserably... I was able to download a binary off the Qemu website and it runs beautifully. Although I don't like running windows in qemu... it's a resource hog bar none, linux in qemu is a jewel. You can find excellent install and usage instructions in the obvious places like the wiki, forums and the Qemu webpage. You can also find a gem of an article about it on the LINUX JOURNAL website. It'll give you quite a detailed howto with the windows installation. My first qemu experiments involved windows98se and windows xp. By a factor of maybe 2, windows xp was slower than molasses when compared to win98se. Since then I've managed a few linux images and I've been thinking about trying a BSD image just for the experience of it. I don't know if vmware provides cow files, Qemu does... what this allows is for you to setup your windows image anyway you want, then reload your qemu image with cow file support enabled... and any modifications made during your windows session is written to the cow file, not your windows image. If things get really, really hashed up, closeup Qemu... delete the cow file and start afresh... A perfect way to dump the worms, viri, malware, etc... or your accidentally hosed linux image... Really, really good stuff. Cheers. Jerry McBride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:21:36 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. It's working on 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 here. -- Neil Bothwick Monday is the root of all evil! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
Jerry McBride writes: I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. And secondly, you only get to use it for 30 days... the vmware workstation evaluation copy that is. Right, but you can use the vmware player for free with existing VMs. You can even create VMs from scratch, there are some websites which offer this, you fill in information about the OS, memory and such, and get a config file you can use with the vmware player. [..] allows is for you to setup your windows image anyway you want, then reload your qemu image with cow file support enabled... and any modifications made during your windows session is written to the cow file, not your windows image. If things get really, really hashed up, closeup Qemu... delete the cow file and start afresh... A perfect way to dump the worms, viri, malware, etc... or your accidentally hosed linux image... With VMware, you can create snapshots of your VMs, and revert to older ones if you like. Or you can use VMs in undoable mode, and decide whether you want to keep the changes made since the VM was started. I do not know qemu yet, but I guess it may be easier to setup. You are right about the recent kernels, the vmware modules did not compile for me several times until vmware released patches. Quite annoying. But apart from that, vmware works quite well. Wonko -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 05:02:58 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:21:36 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. It's working on 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 here. When I was at the vmware website, browsing the system requirements it listed older versions of both linux distributions and kernel versions. Perhaps those were the supported settings and the versions outside of that are the unsupported fare? I never installed vmware, just simply too big while other vmanagers are much smaller. Thanks for the note though... maybe I'll have a look soon too. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:36:43 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: It's working on 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 here. When I was at the vmware website, browsing the system requirements it listed older versions of both linux distributions and kernel versions. Perhaps those were the supported settings and the versions outside of that are the unsupported fare? Exactly, and by the same token, you'll find Gentoo is unsupported whatever the kernel version. VMware Workstation is a commercial product, so the compatibility list is more do do with compatibility with their support team than the software. -- Neil Bothwick When you said you wanted to live in sin, I didn't know you meant sloth signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
Cristian Gary ha scritto: probe VirtualBox . Any more info on how does it compare to vmware or qemu? m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:49:30 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:20:38 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: So, the quick question is, is VM Ware the best way to go? I think XP is still lurking on a partition here... and I do need to run Internet Extorter, Outlook, etc... pretend I'm in their domain... VMware is a good way to go, whether it's the best is open to debate. While you can run it from a physical partition, trying to use an existing install may cause problems. At the very least you'll need to re-activate is with MS because it is now running on a different computer (the virtual one). * app-emulation/vmware-workstation Available versions: 4.5.3.19414-r7 5.5.5.56455 ~6.0.1.55017!f ~6.0.2.59824!f ... when I downloaded the evaluation license and a tar.gz, does that satisfy the !f, for example? What do I do with it, then? I do notice the version number matches. If you try to emerge it, you will be told which file to download and where to put it. Put the one you have in $DISTDIR and use the -v option with emerge. If it shows a 0KB download, you know you have the right file. So, here's how it went, more or less: emerge -av =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.0.2.59824 [ nope... ] echo app-emulation/vmware-workstation ~x86 \ app-emulation/vmware-modules ~x86 \ dev-cpp/libsexymm ~x86 \ x11-libs/libview ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords [ so: ] [ebuild N] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.17-r1 483 kB [ebuild N] dev-cpp/libsexymm-0.1.9 USE=-debug -doc 341 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libview-0.6.1 USE=-debug 274 kB [ebuild N F ] app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.0.2.59824 213,943 kB Total: 4 packages (4 new), Size of downloads: 215,039 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package (1 unsatisfied) [...] http://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/VMware-workstation-6.0.2-59824.i386.tar.gz = `/portdir/portage/distfiles/VMware-workstation-6.0.2-59824.i386.tar.gz' ... * Fetch failed for 'app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.0.2.59824' [ so I: ] mv dump/downloads/VMware-workstation-6.0.2-59824.i386.tar.gz \ /portdir/portage/distfiles/ # emerge -av =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.0.2.59824 Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 0 kB [ ... thanks, Neil! ] Fetch Restriction: 1 package ... * checking vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz ;-) ... [ ok ] [ but I must first: ] * Rebuild dev-cpp/gtkmm with USE=accessibility echo dev-cpp/gtkmm accessibility /etc/portage/package.use emerge -av dev-cpp/gtkmm ... Machine crashes, locks hard... I clean the CPU heatsink fan... :( emerge --resume * Messages for package app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.0.2.59824: * Fallback PaX marking -m * VMWare allows for the potential of overwriting files as root. Only * give VMWare access to trusted individuals. * Remember, in order to run VMware Workstation, you have to * be in the 'vmware' group. * You need to run * /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl * to complete the install. * After configuring, run vmware-workstation to launch * Also note that when you reboot you should run: * /etc/init.d/vmware start * before trying to run vmware. Or you could just add it to * the default runlevel: * rc-update add vmware default * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. Linux lbg2 2.6.23-gentoo-r6 #1 Sun Jan 27 22:25:30 PST 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux passwd -a myuser vmware Adding user myuser to group vmware Running /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl [I know no surely appropriate answer to any of the questions, but: ] * Loading vmblock for drag and drop support ... [ ok ] * Starting VMware services: [ ok ] * Virtual machine monitor [ ok ] * Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0[ ok ] * DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 [ ok ] * Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 [ ok ] * DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 [ ok ] * NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 [ ok ] * Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 [ ok ] * Virtual ethernet [ ok ] The configuration of VMware Workstation 6.0.2 build-59824 for Linux for this running kernel completed successfully. You can now run VMware Workstation by invoking the following command: /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware. I installed it. It runs. Now what? After configuring, run vmware-workstation to launch # which vmware-workstation which: no vmware-workstation in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin) updatedb locate vmware-workstation |grep -v -P 'db/pkg|cache|portage' ... Okay, so that was a ruse. Hmm. Yes, I
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
Hi Neil, Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 9:45:45 PM, you wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:37:22 -0200, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: We've been using VMware Server and VMware Server Console at our lab. Everything works really good. The point is that you can't use a real phisical partition of any of your disks. You have to create a virtual disk for the guest system. That's not the case with VMware Workstation. VMware Server supports raw disks too. You can mount partition from physical disk to virtual machine easily. -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
Hi Neil, Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 1:23:50 AM, you wrote: Exactly, and by the same token, you'll find Gentoo is unsupported whatever the kernel version. VMware Workstation is a commercial product, so the compatibility list is more do do with compatibility with their support team than the software. You are right. We are using VMware with Gentoo as host and guest OS more than a year w/o problems. -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
Hi Alex, Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 12:07:50 AM, you wrote: I do not know qemu yet, but I guess it may be easier to setup. You are right about the recent kernels, the vmware modules did not compile for me several times until vmware released patches. Quite annoying. But apart from that, vmware works quite well. It works well on 2.6.23 2.6.24. -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
Hi Jerry, Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 11:59:42 PM, you wrote: That and I believe the server package requires vm support in the cpu while the workstation does not. There are no special kernel requirements for server and workstation. -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
