[gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/21/2009 11:17 PM, Keith Dart wrote: === On Wed, 10/21, Xi Shen wrote: === why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is patched by gentoo? === Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Dave Jones
Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45: why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is patched by gentoo? Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running Gentoo as a guest

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Dave Jones
Dave Jones wrote on 21/10/09 23:07: Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45: Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.) No. It works fine with other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Wed, 10/21, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.) === Oooh... you mean running Gentoo as a guest. Well, you do have to have built a kernel first (or at least a make config). The build

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Xi Shen
well, currently i am using the open-vm-tool, which is the open source version. but i want to know if they are the same in function. can someone tell me? thanks. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Wed, 10/21, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === Isn't that