On Fri 24 July 2009 12:45:18 pm James Brown wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:10:49PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> I intend to install on my laptop under Debian Lenny AMD 64 the VM Ware > >> Player 2.5.2 from http://www.vmware.com/download/player/download.html > >> (becouse there is no VMWare Player in the official repositories of the > >> Debian). > >> Which of the packege do I need - rpm or bundle? How do install it on > >> Debian? And what of libraries and etc. do I need install for succesfull > >> using VMWare Player? > > > > You do not want the rpm. > > > > I don't like the current bundles either. I keep nagging vmware to > > provide the tar files that worked with make-vmpkg again, but they are too > > clueless to understand why real admins won't run GUI installer crap in X > > as root on their systems rather than something the package manager can > > deal with. > > > > Fortunately we now have kvm (on machines with virtualization hardware > > support) which is in my opinion much better than vmware, free, open > > source, and maintained and part of stock kernels. I have no need for > > vmware anymore. > > Could the kvm boot the Windows from physical disk? (I want to make the > virtual machine boot my old Windows from my laptop becouse some > programes from my working space don't want to run under Linux). > Earlier I tried the Virtualbox but it cannot do it and the Virtualbox > from the Debian's repositories don't maintain USB.
James, Download VirtualBox from the Sun repository, rather than the Debian repository. You'll get a more current version and USB will work: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads There are some features of VB that are not available in the open source edition (ose) available from a Debian repository which are available in the version from Sun. HTH cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 -------- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org