Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 15.30, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 3/9/06, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@××××××××.ch> wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 March 2006 03.45, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > Thierry,
> > >    Thanks for the response. I tried the player. It emerged but didn't
> > > run complaining that I hadn't configured it. With no good instructions
> > > about to get me through that quickly I've put the idea to bed for now.
> > > I'll revisit it later if it makes sense.
> > >
> > > Thanks much,
> > > Mark
> >
> > I just came accross an article takling about a new program names
> > "parallels" (www.parallels.com) that is supposed to do the same thing as
> > vmware while being less expensive.
> >
> > No ideas as to ebuilds but I'll give it a look - it should be able to run
> > OS/2 and I'd like to see that.
> >
> > Thierry
>
> Very interesting! For $49 it might be worth a try.
>
> Their downloads page for the trial version references a 'Gentoo
> ebuilds archive'. That's a good sign. (I think...) ;-)
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Mark

Well, I've tested it and now have my good old OS/2 back working, including nfs 
network!
But I have that on my notebook - because Parallels doesn't configure on a 64 
bit machine at the time.
I also got news of a new Win4lin Pro version (Win4Lin uses qemu), and they are 
promoting their software.

Also not that while some sell every release (vmware and, it seems, parallels 
have you pay every *.x release - Win4lin users have acces to every release 
since 1.0, maybe because it never workes properly ;)

Well, the fact that their machine runs OS/2 geot parallels my money... brings 
back a lot of feelings :)

Thierry

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