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On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:34 AM, Tamas Karpati <tkarpati@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Dear all, |
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> 1. Failed installing VMWare Workstation 10.* (WS) along with any |
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> gentoo-sources (swept all stable and latest ~amd64 versions recent days), |
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> 2. seeing many solutions of remarkably few types re-appearing |
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> on the net after several version bumps but still |
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> 3. having 0 (zero) stable versions of WS in the portage tree |
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> I would like to ask you about the appropriate steps to make in order |
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> to have a stable working WS on my Gentoo box without having |
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> to mix things up with overlays (I never used them and unsure |
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> about spending the effort for just a workaround). |
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> Another question would be whether WS will ever go stable in the |
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> portage tree (temporary state of the corresponding packages) or |
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> this is the intended conduction of developement? |
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> You know, a field Gentoo user never knows why is a pkg unstable... |
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> Thanks for your time, |
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> toma |
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Hi Toma, |
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I cannot offer any recent experiences with VMWare on Gentoo. Maybe |
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5-6 years ago I was using the workstation product but I had numerous |
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issues that sound similar to yours and eventually gave up on it. |
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Since that time I've been using the ~amd64 version of Virtualbox |
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nearly daily. (Since 2008-2009 I think...) I run two VMs each running |
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Win 7 in which I run 2 different trading platforms along with other |
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Windows apps. As a workstation I've had remarkably few real issues |
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with it other than graphics performance where it really lags behind |
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VMWare's virtual graphics device. That said graphics performance isn't |
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critical to my needs so I'm quite happy. In fact recently NetFlix |
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started supporting watching streaming videos in a Linux browser (I use |
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Chrome for most everything) without having to use a Windows VM so I've |
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retired the 3rd VB VM that I used to use for that. |
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If graphics performance, or for some reason using specifically a |
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VMWare product is important to you, then you might be better off on a |
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Linux platform they support directly like Ubuntu or Redhat, etc. I |
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personally wouldn't go there but it's probably a more dependable and |
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less maintenance if you did. |
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HTH, |
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Mark |
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