On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Lennart Sorensen<lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> 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. > > -- > Len Sorensen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
+1 KVM is better and easier, but perhaps you should look at: http://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization they have good information on virtualization products (KVM, vmware, qemu, etc). -- Usuario Linux Registrado #452368 Usuario Ubuntu Registrado #28025 "Doing a thing well is often a waste of time." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //Netbook - HP Mini 1035NR 2GB 60GB - Windows XP/Ubuntu 9.04 //Desktop - Core 2 Duo 1.86Ghz 8GB 500GB - Windows 7(testing) //Desktop - Core 2 Duo 2.40Ghz 8GB 320GB - MacOS Leopard //Desktop - Athlon 64 2.7Ghz 8GB 400GB - Ubuntu Jaunty //Server - Pentium D 3.2Ghz 8GB 1TB - Debian Lenny //Server - Celeron 1.8Ghz 1GB 160GB - Pfsense //Server - NSLU2 266Mhz 32MB 1TB - Debian Lenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
