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

[gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
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 Plan B is migrating the VMs to KVM quickly ... Thanks for pointers, Stefan

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