C M Reinehr wrote: > 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 > > I did this installation but now I have something strange: when I gave command "virtualbox" the bash answered me that this command didn't found.
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