Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Richard Freeman wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> Should be as simple as copying the data files over to wherever they >> are stored for your user account, changing owner, and then opening it >> with the vmware GUI. >> >> > > Yup. Although I thought that vmware stu

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Richard Freeman wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> Should be as simple as copying the data files over to wherever they >> are stored for your user account, changing owner, and then opening it >> with the vmware GUI. >> >> > > Yup. Although I thought that vmware stu

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-02-03 Thread Richard Freeman
Paul Hartman wrote: Should be as simple as copying the data files over to wherever they are stored for your user account, changing owner, and then opening it with the vmware GUI. Yup. Although I thought that vmware stuck all VMs in /var/lib/vmware regardless of who created them. Granted,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Richard Freeman wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> I'm now officially into #6 above and I don't have a clue where to go. >>> ;-) (Of course, anyone here who has good info I'm up for receiving >>> it. Drop me

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-02-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Richard Freeman wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> I'm now officially into #6 above and I don't have a clue where to go. >> ;-) (Of course, anyone here who has good info I'm up for receiving >> it. Drop me a note privately or post back on this list as long as >> fo

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-02-02 Thread Richard Freeman
Mark Knecht wrote: I'm now officially into #6 above and I don't have a clue where to go. ;-) (Of course, anyone here who has good info I'm up for receiving it. Drop me a note privately or post back on this list as long as folks subscribed here have an interest in watching me struggle a bit!) ;-)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-02-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Richard Freeman wrote: > Wil Reichert wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Mark Knecht >> wrote: >>> >>> So that's a couple of votes for Virtual-Box. (That's from Sun >>> correct?) emerge virtualbox-bin? It seems to want me to fetch >>> something first. I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-02-02 Thread Richard Freeman
Wil Reichert wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: So that's a couple of votes for Virtual-Box. (That's from Sun correct?) emerge virtualbox-bin? It seems to want me to fetch something first. I'll have to check into that. There's also Xen, right? Is it too early for an Op

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Wil Reichert wrote: >> So that's a couple of votes for Virtual-Box. (That's from Sun >> correct?) emerge virtualbox-bin? It seems to want me to fetch >> something first. I'll have to check into that. >> >> There's also Xen, right? Is it too early for an Open Sour

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Gary E. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo Mark! On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > So that's a couple of votes for Virtual-Box. (That's from Sun > correct?) emerge virtualbox-bin? It seems to want me to fetch > something first. I'll have to check into that. You need 2.1.12 to supp

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Wil Reichert
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Steve Herber wrote: >> I would suggest VirtualBox. It just installed easily for me. I am >> running it on my system with stable gentoo-sources kernel. >> >> I just never had as much success with VMWare. >>

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Steve Herber wrote: > I would suggest VirtualBox. It just installed easily for me. I am > running it on my system with stable gentoo-sources kernel. > > I just never had as much success with VMWare. > > Good luck, > -- > Steve Herberher...@thing.com

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Steve Herber
I would suggest VirtualBox. It just installed easily for me. I am running it on my system with stable gentoo-sources kernel. I just never had as much success with VMWare. Good luck, -- Steve Herberher...@thing.comwork: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Service

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Gary E. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo All! On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Tom wrote: > Just found this regarding 3d support in Virtualbox. > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzAyNA I run WinXP, Vista and Win7 Beta in VirtualBox 2.1.12. On some hosts I run the 64 bit Vista

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Tom
Just found this regarding 3d support in Virtualbox. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzAyNA Tom

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Tom wrote: >>>Are there any flags in /proc/cpuinfo that show this? The processors is >>>a 4 year old AMD64. Likely or not? >> >> Check your bios. If your CPU+board support it, there will be an option >> to ena

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Tom wrote: >>Are there any flags in /proc/cpuinfo that show this? The processors is >>a 4 year old AMD64. Likely or not? > > Check your bios. If your CPU+board support it, there will be an option > to enable-disable it. > A 4year old AMD64, something like athlon300

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Tom
>Are there any flags in /proc/cpuinfo that show this? The processors is >a 4 year old AMD64. Likely or not? Check your bios. If your CPU+board support it, there will be an option to enable-disable it. A 4year old AMD64, something like athlon3000+ ? (which is what I've got) probably won't have it.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Thanks Paul. > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> I've wanted to ask this for a while. I've never seen vmware running. >>> I'm curious about running a few Windo

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 30 January 2009 15:54:43 Mark Knecht wrote: >> I've wanted to ask this for a while. I've never seen vmware running. >> I'm curious about running a few Windows apps on my AMD64 machine, if >> possible. Does stuff like sound work? I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Paul. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> I've wanted to ask this for a while. I've never seen vmware running. >> I'm curious about running a few Windows apps on my AMD64 machine, if >> possible. Does stuff like sou

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 30 January 2009 15:54:43 Mark Knecht wrote: > I've wanted to ask this for a while. I've never seen vmware running. > I'm curious about running a few Windows apps on my AMD64 machine, if > possible. Does stuff like sound work? I don't need any special > hardware. (I think) Just disk, graph

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I've wanted to ask this for a while. I've never seen vmware running. > I'm curious about running a few Windows apps on my AMD64 machine, if > possible. Does stuff like sound work? I don't need any special > hardware. (I think) Just disk, graphi

[gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Mark Knecht
I've wanted to ask this for a while. I've never seen vmware running. I'm curious about running a few Windows apps on my AMD64 machine, if possible. Does stuff like sound work? I don't need any special hardware. (I think) Just disk, graphics and network. How well does this work? vmware seems to hav