Re: how to install vmware workstation

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 16:21:12 Clayton wrote:

I haven't used Gentoo in a long time... did Gentoo provide VMWare as
part of the emerge thing? How could they do that since VMWare is a
commercial and proprietary package?

I am not totally sure, but afair Gentoo's emerge downloaded the vmware
tgz file (or I had to fetch it manually and place it in the DISTFILE
dir), extracted it, applied some patches and the only thing I had to
run after every vmware update was vmware-config.pl to get it working.


In every Linux distribution I've installed VMWare in, I have been
able to install the prepackaged binary (deb, rpm etc) from VMWare
ONLY if it was a contemporary release... eg I could install the
VMWare RPMs (in an RPM based Linux) if the Kernel version matched up
as VMWare expected... otherwise it has always been an install via the
shell script. This is definitely the case with Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.04
where the kernel is far beyond what is supported for VMWare
Workstation 6.0.2 (last stable release that I know of). I don't know
what the VMWare 6.5 Beta is like to install.

I would really like to switch to VirtualBox. But as far as I know,
VirtualBox doesn't support 64-Bit guests now which is a "must
have" for me.

It only is tagged as "Planned" eg:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VBox_vs_Others
I have a feeling that with Sun backing them now there might be
pressure to bring that from Planned to Implemented fairly soon... we
can hope.

Good to hear. I don't plan to buy the next release of vmware...

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Chris

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