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From: Kvothe Tech <kvothe@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:22:47
Message-Id: 4095a472-37c9-43c5-9a2d-97ea831abae8@email.android.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices by Tanstaafl
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4 Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
5
6 >Hi all,
7 >
8 >Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but
9 >decided against that, and have been playing and reading.
10 >
11 >I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting
12 >a
13 >new gentoo vm up and running on my esxi host this weekend.
14 >
15 >Can someone point me to some recent/decent docs on best practices for
16 >this? Ideally gentoo related, but just general linux related would be
17 >ok
18 >too.
19 >
20 >Things like vmware-tools installation (is open-vm-tools good enough
21 >nowadays?), time syncing, snapshots/backups, etc is what I'm looking
22 >for.
23 >
24 >Thanks,
25 >
26 >Charles
27
28 I used VMware tools but I suspect I didn't need to. As was already mentioned ESX should take care of most of that. Other than that I just followed the gentoo handbook and it all works for me
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30 Kvothe Tech
31 Kvothe@××××××××××.com
32 http://kvothetech.com/
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