Hi Thierry, It's good news that Parallels worked that well for you that quickly. Was it pretty straight forward to bring up?
Any thoughts on whether it would be likely to work in a chroot'ed 32-bit environment on my 64-bit Gentoo machine? Cheers, Mark On 3/10/06, Thierry de Coulon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 09 March 2006 15.30, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On 3/9/06, Thierry de Coulon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 09 March 2006 03.45, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Thierry, > > > > Thanks for the response. I tried the player. It emerged but didn't > > > > run complaining that I hadn't configured it. With no good instructions > > > > about to get me through that quickly I've put the idea to bed for now. > > > > I'll revisit it later if it makes sense. > > > > > > > > Thanks much, > > > > Mark > > > > > > I just came accross an article takling about a new program names > > > "parallels" (www.parallels.com) that is supposed to do the same thing as > > > vmware while being less expensive. > > > > > > No ideas as to ebuilds but I'll give it a look - it should be able to run > > > OS/2 and I'd like to see that. > > > > > > Thierry > > > > Very interesting! For $49 it might be worth a try. > > > > Their downloads page for the trial version references a 'Gentoo > > ebuilds archive'. That's a good sign. (I think...) ;-) > > > > Thanks! > > > > - Mark > > Well, I've tested it and now have my good old OS/2 back working, including nfs > network! > But I have that on my notebook - because Parallels doesn't configure on a 64 > bit machine at the time. > I also got news of a new Win4lin Pro version (Win4Lin uses qemu), and they are > promoting their software. > > Also not that while some sell every release (vmware and, it seems, parallels > have you pay every *.x release - Win4lin users have acces to every release > since 1.0, maybe because it never workes properly ;) > > Well, the fact that their machine runs OS/2 geot parallels my money... brings > back a lot of feelings :) > > Thierry > > -- > The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a > capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the > safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? > Frank Zappa > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
