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I have a workstation license for VMWare which runs on my Gentoo desktop |
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system with no problems whatsoever. Basically, Linux is Linux. I'm not |
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sure exactly what parts of the Linux system VMWare relies on, but my |
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impression is that it uses those portions of the OS such as the kernel |
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and gcc which are pretty much common to all distributions. I'd be both |
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disappointed and surprised if Gentoo stopped including VMWare, but one |
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can always install it by getting it directly from VMWare and running the |
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installation scripts. |
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On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 21:15 -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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> |
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> |
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> * app-emulation/vmware-workstation |
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> Latest version available: 5.5.3.34685 |
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> Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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> Unstable version: 5.5.3.34685 |
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> |
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> Will 6.0 be in Portage? It seems silly to do that if it is not supported |
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> by VMware. |
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