Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Zhu Sha Zang <zhushazang@×××××××××.br>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMWare Workstation install
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:03:55
Message-Id: 54D242E1.2030903@yahoo.com.br
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMWare Workstation install by Rich Freeman
1 Hey, man. There are some bugs that already been solved in
2 bugs.gentoo.org. Take a look, get the patches and try again to compile.
3
4 IMHO, VirtualBox is too slow compared with vmware softwares. Ok, compile
5 correctly every time, but doesn't worth it.
6
7 Best Regards and Good Luck.
8
9
10 On 02/04/2015 03:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
11 > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tamas Karpati <tkarpati@×××××.com> wrote:
12 >> Thanks for your toughts. Following your suggestion I'm going
13 >> to evaluate VB while experimenting a bit more with WS.
14 >> I think I'll let them compete.
15 > If you're going to consider something new I'd certainly look at KVM as
16 > well (libvirt/virt-manager/etc).
17 >
18 > I can't pretend to have done a full-feature comparison between the
19 > various options, but the obvious advantage of KVM is that it is in the
20 > vanilla kernel and fully open-source. Wrappers like virt-manager give
21 > you a workstation-like presentation but all the guts are fully
22 > command-line controllable and use standard kernel features. I don't
23 > know if it supports snapshotting of running systems, however (ie
24 > including RAM/hardware/etc state).
25 >
26 > I don't know what your exact needs are, but obviously being 100% FOSS
27 > gives you a lot of options you won't have with any of the proprietary
28 > stuff. If for some reason a kernel update breaks it you can complain
29 > on lkml and watch it get fixed fast or at the very least get some
30 > entertainment as Linus flames somebody to a crisp.
31 >
32 > --
33 > Rich
34 >