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On Wed, 08 Feb 2017 01:12:13 -0500, |
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Valmor de Almeida wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I would appreciate inputs on emulation of Gentoo on a Mac OSX. |
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> For many years I have been using VirtualBox on the Mac as a host and a |
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> Gentoo guest. It seems it is becoming difficult to get the |
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> virtualbox-guest-additions package to compile and install on the |
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> Gentoo guest. I don't know whether this is a difficulty coming from |
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> the virtualbox package itself. However, I am considering an emulation |
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> alternative such as VMWare Fusion to avoid problems with portage |
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> updates. I wonder whether the experience with the packages that need |
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> to be installed on the Gentoo guest side for VMWare are less |
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> problematic than the corresponding virtualbox packages. |
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> Thank you. |
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I have it working fine under vmware fusion and I have updated since |
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the install. I don't ust X on that box, so you may have a different |
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result. |
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The only gotcha I had was that vmware would not install the tools, but |
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I found the iso image and mounted it and did it myself. |
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