Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.10.2011 18:47, schrieb Mark Knecht: Gentoo hosts run KVM, in there virtual Windows-machines for various specific software they need. Stable so far. Good to know. Maybe I'll give it a try. reply 2, new thoughts (perspective: running *one* Windows-XP-VM on a desktop-machine, for some

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.10.2011 23:14, schrieb Mark Knecht: I've decided to stick with vmware-player-3.1.4 for use as a Netflix VM only. All of my real work is done in Virtualbox VMs using both 32-bit NT and 64-bit Win 7. The only problem I've had recently is that my dual monitor Win 7 VM tends to 'abort'

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 05:53, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 19.10.2011 23:14, schrieb Mark Knecht: I've decided to stick with vmware-player-3.1.4 for use as a Netflix VM only. All of my real work is done in Virtualbox VMs using both 32-bit NT and 64-bit Win 7. The only

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.10.2011 11:56, schrieb Andrey Moshbear: I stay w/ vmware-player-3.1.5 for now (out of vmware-overlay). I've had rather pleasant experiences with virtualbox. Less libhell/libnazism, too. Plus, less drivers to modprobe (just vboxdrv, vboxnet as needed) instead of the 4 or so needed for

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 20.10.2011 11:56, schrieb Andrey Moshbear: I stay w/ vmware-player-3.1.5 for now (out of vmware-overlay). I've had rather pleasant experiences with virtualbox. Less libhell/libnazism, too. Plus, less drivers to

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.10.2011 15:00, schrieb Mark Knecht: I've wanted to try out the Linux KVM stuff but watching the development list gave me the feeling it wasn't stable enough to depend on day to day. I have that stuff out at customers. Gentoo hosts run KVM, in there virtual Windows-machines for various

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 20.10.2011 15:00, schrieb Mark Knecht: I've wanted to try out the Linux KVM stuff but watching the development list gave me the feeling it wasn't stable enough to depend on day to day. I have that stuff out at

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.10.2011 18:47, schrieb Mark Knecht: The following is more for my own to do list. Feel free to respond if you know of a good Gentoo oriented web page for using KVM. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KVM ? - I believe I've read that somehow I can convert my VMware Player image to

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 14.10.2011 00:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Anyone hitting the same issue? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6824432.html?sid=ff31450ec4a661979b3545e662bdfbb1 AFAI understand glibc-2.13-r4 (as in ~amd64 right now) is too new for the vmware-binary? Did I understand correctly?

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 14.10.2011 00:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Anyone hitting the same issue? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6824432.html?sid=ff31450ec4a661979b3545e662bdfbb1  AFAI understand glibc-2.13-r4 (as in ~amd64

[gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Anyone hitting the same issue? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6824432.html?sid=ff31450ec4a661979b3545e662bdfbb1 AFAI understand glibc-2.13-r4 (as in ~amd64 right now) is too new for the vmware-binary? Did I understand correctly? Is there a workaround? Downgrading glibc is not the way to