On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:14:15 +0100 Felix Kuperjans <fe...@desaster-games.com> wrote:
> > Would somebody please give me some hints which packages I should be > > looking at, and perhaps any use flags I might need. > VirtualBox is quite easy for beginners, but requires external kernel > modules and requires a GUI (what you most probably want anyway). That's not true. VBoxHeadless implements practically everything you can do in the gui, and the built-in RDP server lets you connect from other machines so the host doesn't need to run a gui either. A GUI is strongly recommended, some thing are just easier with pointy-clicky, but it's far from required. External kernel modules are no big deal either. You need the same with VMWare. It's just a package you emerge and modules-rebuild is there to help you remember what must be rebuilt with every kernel build. These days you have to do the same with xorg-modules whenever you upgrade Xorg, so even that is not an issue anymore. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
