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Dear Mark, |
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Thanks for your toughts. Following your suggestion I'm going |
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to evaluate VB while experimenting a bit more with WS. |
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I think I'll let them compete. The investment side of the fight is |
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already won by VB, as its site misses the pricing section whereas |
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WS just increased its upgrade fee. (Just because I once purchased |
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one I'm not bonded to it.) Contrary, I would never give up the |
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freedom brought by Gentoo, thus moving to another platform is |
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not an option. |
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I hope that WS (nice tool, indeed, I also used it for several years) |
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will soon work with Gentoo. Since I don't need to stick to any, |
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I may end up using both, each in its particular area. |
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Best regards, |
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toma |
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On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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>> 3. having 0 (zero) stable versions of WS in the portage tree |
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>> |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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>> Thanks for your time, |
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>> toma |
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>> |
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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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> HTH, |
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> Mark |
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> |