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 ri...@gentoo.org 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

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?

2009-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org 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

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 markkne...@gmail.com 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

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 12:49 PM, Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org 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

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 ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Wil Reichert wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com 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

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 markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org 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

[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

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 markkne...@gmail.com 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)

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, graphics

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 pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org 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

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 markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Paul. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I've wanted to ask this for a while. I've never

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 Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Tom uebersh...@googlemail.com 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,

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 markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Tom uebersh...@googlemail.com 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

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_itempx=NzAyNA Tom

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_itempx=NzAyNA I run WinXP, Vista and Win7 Beta in VirtualBox 2.1.12. On some hosts I run the 64 bit Vista and

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

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 her...@thing.com 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 Wil Reichert
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Steve Herber her...@thing.com 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

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