On 09/15/2011 05:21 AM, David Relson wrote:
You don't have to use it. You just install it in order to get
libvmware.so. You then use Player, not Workstation.
It's fetch-restricted, so portage will tell you which file to
download. To download, you need to register, but creating an account
doesn't cost.
vmware-8.0.0 was released today and the vmware site seems not to
include older versions. (If they're still available, they're well
hidden).
[...]
Note: I found the x86_64 bundle for 7.1.4 (the most recent ebuild) by
googling.
For future reference, on the download page:
http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation/8_0
there's this:
"Other versions of VMware Workstation: 7.0, 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.5"
