On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 09:37:44PM +0000, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: > On 19/01/2020 21:22, Haines Brown wrote: > > It been ten years since I've installed a virtual machine under Linux, > > and things have changed. > > > > I downloaded and ran VMware-Player-3.1.1-282343.x86_64.bundle to > > install VMware Player with success.
> > The second command starts a vmware process, but I gather I should > > expect a VMware window to pop up. Roland, you suggest: > I suspect running it this way will require a desktop, I mean it is hardly > likely to pop up something on a desktop that isn't there ;-) You raise an intestesing point. For decades I've run all sorts of applications from a CL ñthat raise windows with a window manager but without my having any desktop. I never experienced this problem before. I always thought of a DE as a set of toys that are on top of and share a graphical environment, the X Windows System that I have installed and is independent of any DE. > Try reading the man page. Man vmware is about the video driver for virtual video cards. Its configuration does not seem to affect whether or not a window is displayed. > I should also point out that Windows 7 and 8 are both EOL. I mentioned antiques because I thought maybe they could be picked up for a song. Haines _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
