Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-03 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Mick wrote: > > I am about to try virtualbox on my wifes machine. According to the manual > you can run an existing installation (using raw disk access) but a number > of other problems make this less of a practical solution for me; e.g. you > must shut the VM down befor

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday 03 April 2008, luis jure wrote: > El Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:12:15 +0200 > > "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > My experience with vmware itself (I use vmware-player and that known > > website that creates images, I don't remember the url) is a lot > > smoother. However I never tried

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Apr 2008, at 20:26, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:02:57 +0100, Stroller wrote: Is that a Windows system? If so you'll have problems because the virtual machine shows up as different hardware and the Microsoft profit-protection system will kick in requiring you to reactivate W

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:02:57 +0100, Stroller wrote: > > Is that a Windows system? If so you'll have problems because the > > virtual > > machine shows up as different hardware and the Microsoft > > profit-protection system will kick in requiring you to reactivate > > Windows. > > This isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Apr 2008, at 09:38, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 23:50:42 -0300, luis jure wrote: that's a good question. does anyone know if vmware-player can run a system already installed on a different partition? Is that a Windows system? If so you'll have problems because the virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-03 Thread Joshua D Doll
luis jure wrote: hello list, i bought i laptop with windows xp pre-installed. i shrunk the windows partition to install my gentoo linux, which is what i normally use. but the machine is still dual boot. several years ago (8-9) i tried a 30-days demo version of vmware and it was quite efficient

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-03 Thread Kenji Tan
The link to the site: http://www.easyvmx.com/ luis jure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: El Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:12:15 +0200 "b.n." escribió: > My experience with vmware itself (I use vmware-player and that known > website that creates images, I don't remember the url) is a lot > smoother. Howeve

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 23:50:42 -0300, luis jure wrote: > that's a good question. does anyone know if vmware-player can run a > system already installed on a different partition? Is that a Windows system? If so you'll have problems because the virtual machine shows up as different hardware and the Mi

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread luis jure
El Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:12:15 +0200 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > My experience with vmware itself (I use vmware-player and that known > website that creates images, I don't remember the url) is a lot > smoother. However I never tried to run a system already installed on > another parti

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread b.n.
Michael Higgins ha scritto: On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:10:20 -0300 luis jure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hello list, [8<] i found a few pages on the net explaining how to install vmware on gentoo, but i'm not clear about those issues. thanks for any hint. http://archiver.mailfighter.net/gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:10:20 -0300 luis jure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hello list, [8<] > > i found a few pages on the net explaining how to install vmware on > gentoo, but i'm not clear about those issues. thanks for any hint. http://archiver.mailfighter.net/gentoo-user/2008/January/1

[gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread luis jure
hello list, i bought i laptop with windows xp pre-installed. i shrunk the windows partition to install my gentoo linux, which is what i normally use. but the machine is still dual boot. several years ago (8-9) i tried a 30-days demo version of vmware and it was quite efficient running windows i