[gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with virtual machines on my Gentoo. I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely looking. Would somebody please give me some hints which packages I sh

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with > virtual machines on my Gentoo. > > I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in > directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely l

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with > virtual machines on my Gentoo. > > I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in > directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely lo

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Felix Kuperjans
Hi Alan, Am 22.11.2011 20:20, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > Hi, Gentoo. > > A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with > virtual machines on my Gentoo. > > I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in > directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely loo

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:43:10 -0500 Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Gentoo. > > > > A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with > > virtual machines on my Gentoo. > > > > I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packag

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 19:20 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with > virtual machines on my Gentoo. > > I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in > directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread kashani
On 11/22/2011 11:20 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with virtual machines on my Gentoo. I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely looking. Would somebo

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:14:15 +0100 Felix Kuperjans 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

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Good evening, Felix! On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 09:14:15PM +0100, Felix Kuperjans wrote: > Hi Alan, > Am 22.11.2011 20:20, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > > Hi, Gentoo. > > A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with > > virtual machines on my Gentoo. > > I've scanned /usr/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 14:43 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Gentoo. > > > > A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with > > virtual machines on my Gentoo. > > > > I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:29:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the > open-source version. Except USB support. -- Neil Bothwick What do you get if you cross an agnostic, an insomniac and adyslexic? Someone who lies awake at night wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Felix Kuperjans
Am 22.11.2011 23:12, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > Good evening, Felix! Good evening, Alan! > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 09:14:15PM +0100, Felix Kuperjans wrote: >> Hi Alan, >> Am 22.11.2011 20:20, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: >>> Hi, Gentoo. >>> A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, November 23, 2011 12:06 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:29:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the >> open-source version. > > Except USB support. Huh? I used VirtualBox with a MSWindowsXP guest to use a "nega

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, November 22, 2011 11:47 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: > YMMV ... VB is stable and rarely if ever breaks, app and modules "just > work" - performance is as good as vmware I actually found VB to have better performance. When using virtual machines, I tend to run multiple simultaneously. V

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:57:31 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the > >> open-source version. > > > > Except USB support. > > Huh? > > I used VirtualBox with a MSWindowsXP guest to use a "negatives" scanner > that would refuse to wor

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:34:45 + schrieb Neil Bothwick : > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:57:31 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > >> What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the > > >> open-source version. > > > > > > Except USB support. > > > > Huh? > > > > I used VirtualBox

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, November 23, 2011 2:34 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:57:31 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> >> What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the >> >> open-source version. >> > >> > Except USB support. >> >> Huh? >> >> I used VirtualBox with a MSWindowsXP

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:01:34 +0100 "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > On Tue, November 22, 2011 11:47 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > > > YMMV ... VB is stable and rarely if ever breaks, app and modules > > "just work" - performance is as good as vmware > > I actually found VB to have better performa

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I notice this entire thread has carefully steered around ESXi > > Now there's an interesting product, with a truly fascinating licensing > and pricing model. ESXi isn't Linux. Or, at least, it's not something you'd run on your desktop. But

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 23, 2011 10:32 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I notice this entire thread has carefully steered around ESXi > > > > Now there's an interesting product, with a truly fascinating licensing > > and pricing model. > > ESXi isn't Linux. O