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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:15:07 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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>> I am considering buying a Linux host license of VMware Workstation 6.0 |
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>> when it is released. However, VMware explicitly does not support Gentoo |
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>> hosts. I noticed that 5.5 is in Portage: |
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> Supported in this context mean they will help you if you have problems |
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> related to your host OS. I've run VMware Workstation from 3.0 to 6.0beta |
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> on Gentoo. 6.0 is the first version to provide a 64 bit version and runs |
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> better on my amd64 system than previous versions. |
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> I've currently switched back to 5.5 because I don't know what the upgrade |
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> price is and I won't want to be forced into it because I have created too |
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> many 6.0 VMs: so I converted them back to V5 format and am awaiting an |
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> announcement of the release and prices. |
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"Unsupported" in this context means "I'm paying the same price for my |
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license as somebody who buys a Workstation license for a Windows or RHEL |
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host and I expect that VMware will give me the same level of support". I |
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know 5.5 "works on Gentoo" and I'm pretty sure 6.0 will too. All I'm |
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saying is that Gentoo is providing some level of support by putting |
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ebuilds in Portage for something with no support from the vendor. |
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I downloaded the Beta and tried it. I had some problems getting it to |
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work. I think someone on the forum helped me get going and I was able to |
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get it to run, although it was so slow it was unusable once I did get it |
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running. But just yesterday I got an email from their support folks with |
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the standard "We don't support what you're trying to do. A list of |
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supported hosts can be found ..." disclaimer. All I'm saying is that |
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they don't "support" us -- why should we "support" them by distributing |
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their package and even supplying patches so that it works on Gentoo? |
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I think I had this discussion a while back, and the upshot was that a |
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number of the Gentoo developers used VMware Workstation themselves, so |
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they made it work, and as long as VMware didn't forbid them from |
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distributing it, they didn't see anything wrong with distributing it. |
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Gentoo developer resources are finite, though, and if you've got the |
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right hardware in place, Xen beats the doodoo out of VMware for quite a |
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few "interesting" tasks like running a Windows guest. Gentoo developer |
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resources being finite ... :) |
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P) |
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http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/ |
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If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire. |
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