Curiously enough, the one that's the trickiest is Gentoo. The VMWare tools assume there are directories /etc/rc.0, /etc/rc.1, etc., and Gentoo's scheme of startup script managment doesn't use them. So, if I can't make Microsoft Virtual PC work, I'll either go back to dual-boot or try to convince management to buy VMWare Workstation.
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Marc Hildebrand wrote:
Same here.
I recently switched to coLinux + Xdeep.
Works well enough for me, maybe you want to check it out.
Cheers, Marc.
The machine in question has CygWin/X; would I need "Xdeep" as well?
I haven't looked at coLinux recently. How stable is it? Are there security issues? This machine is in a corporate environment, and the whole point of using Microsoft Virtual PC was to eliminate a dual-boot and provide more Linux packages than CygWin supports. The specific motivation right now is to run a number of network capture processing tools like "tcpslice", which seem straightforward but for some reason don't work in CygWin.
One thing that occurred to me last night was that the problems I was having with virtual hard drives on both Gentoo and Knoppix (both with 2.4 kernels, btw) seem to have been on the virtual hard disk that's "expandable" rather than a pre-allocated virtual hard drive.
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