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On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 01:12:13AM -0500, 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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> -- |
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> Valmor |
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Hi Valmor, |
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I am presently running gentoo as a VM(virtualbox) on macos seirra. |
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I have app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.0.32:0 and |
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x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.0.32:0 installed and running. |
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I didn't face any problems while compiling/installing the package. |
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Could you specify the issues you faced while installing/upgrading |
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virtualbox-guest-additions package. I have used VMware Fusion barely |
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so I don't have enough experience to comment |
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on the overall quality it delivers or packages pertaining to it in |
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portage. |
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Regards, |
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Naveen |
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