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. > >
Wow! When I tried install the kvm, the system tell me: "Your system does not have the CPU extensions required to use KVM. Not doing anything. failed!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
