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On Wednesday 08 March 2006 02.06, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I've never used VMware but someone suggested I try their VMware |
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> Player app. Looking around I ran across info on the workstation |
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> version here: |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_VMware |
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> but nothing yet on the Player app. Is anyone using the Player? Does |
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> any of this work on the 64-bit platform or do I need to run all of |
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> this chroot'ed? |
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Yes, I've used the vmware-player. If I remember well, the player is masked |
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(amd64 keyword), but not vmware-workstation. |
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It did work , but apparently shared folders are deactivated in the player at |
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the time. So I ended up upgrading vmware-workstation and that's what I am |
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using now. |
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> Since VMware is a retail app I assume all the WIKI is showing is |
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> how to get the workstation set up and that I'd have to have a license |
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> to actually use it? Or is this not the case? I didn't spot any |
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> comments about entering license numbers, etc., and never having used |
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> VMware I wouldn't really know what to look for anyway. |
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No, you don't need to pay to use vmware.player. The catch is that the player |
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has some limitations, the most important being that you can't create a |
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virtual machine - so you have to create it on another machine running |
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workstation, or download one somewhere. |
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I also noticed that I got regular errors when starting the player, but could |
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start it in the end, while the problem did not occur with workstation. |
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The bottom line (I think) is that if you rellly need en emulator like vmware, |
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you should think about getting workstation. If it's more a matter of trying, |
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you won't break much with player. Note that player is easily removed the day |
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you want to emerge workstatiion. |
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> Thanks in advance, |
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> Mark |
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Have a nice day |
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Thierry |
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a |
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capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the |
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safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? |
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Frank Zappa |
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