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Thierry, |
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Thanks for the response. I tried the player. It emerged but didn't |
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run complaining that I hadn't configured it. With no good instructions |
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about to get me through that quickly I've put the idea to bed for now. |
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I'll revisit it later if it makes sense. |
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Thanks much, |
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Mark |
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On 3/7/06, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@××××××××.ch> wrote: |
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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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> > |
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> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_VMware |
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> > |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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> > Thanks in advance, |
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> > Mark |
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> |
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> Have a nice day |
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> |
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> Thierry |
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> |
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> -- |
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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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