Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on VMWare - few ideas

2006-03-05 Thread Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez
I think that it's a nice idea. Maybe 2 versions: with X and w/o X just to reduce the space needed. Can be great to try gentoo inside any other linux or win machine. Can be great too to try new systems ebuilds or to test things. El 04/03/2006, a las 8:32, Kalin KOZHUHAROV escribió: Hi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on VMWare - few ideas

2006-03-05 Thread José Carlos Cruz Costa
Coincidence, installed Gentoo on a WinXP VMWare today and I use VMWare it at work.The only difference is that you don't need all the livecd drivers.Maybe an doc for the specific installation is sufficient with a working kernel-config just like in the gentoo-wiki but an official one. Oh yeah... and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on VMWare - few ideas

2006-03-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:32:55 +0900 Kalin KOZHUHAROV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is it worth: For windoze people it will be a great way to experience/play with Gentoo Where is the big difference to booting a livecd in vmware? Ok, you can write to the disk (image), but I don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on VMWare - few ideas

2006-03-05 Thread tuxp3
Well, for some time now, whenever I'm in windows I usually have VMWare running my Gentoo install, but the GUI never works.. but the only thing I need is deamon server processes (apache/samba) and I'm happy. Would like to have more info on getting X to work, but meh. (note, this is running a REAL