Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:25 AM, The Doctor <drwho@××××××××.net> wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:
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>> The last time I looked at this (maybe a year ago?) I decided that the
>> vmware-workstation would let a home user run something like two
>> instances without charges. Not free in that I'm limited to something
>> specific but no cost. (Is that free beer? It certainly doesn't sound
>> like Free Speech...)
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> There is also a 60-day time limit on the un-paid-for version of VMware
> Workstation, as I recall.
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> The Doctor [412/724/301/703]

I got VirtualBox up and running with XP but nothing much more
yesterday as I ran into XP licensing issues again with M$ and sort of
backed off.

I tried vmware-workstation nearly a year ago and it worked but I
didn't have a real need for it so it languished on my system which
went up in smoke about 2 weeks ago. Yesterday I tried vmware-player
and found it played my Win XP/Kaspersky/SP2 images just fine. So far
all I've had to do was install SP3 and I seem to be good to go so I'll
use this until I run into a reason to change or have more time to work
with VirtualBox.

I haven't figured out what's up with vmware-player networking yet. I
can get to the web in a browser just fine, do updates through M$
Update, do GMail. It looks perfect. However WinSCP running in
vmware-player isn't yet finding other machines on my network. IIRC
there were different models of networking you could set up. I have to
go back and relearn that stuff but it's not critical to me until I
determine if the new machine is really fast enough to run TradeStation
and, very importantly, if the networking is stable enough and
transparent enough to allow me to connect to their network for real
futures trading. That will force me to dig in if it isn't OK right
now.

We'll see...Time will tell...Did you hear the about the guy who walked
into a bar...

- Mark