Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:01:59
Message-Id: 200603101000.10995.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question by Mark Knecht
1 On Thursday 09 March 2006 15:51, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On 3/9/06, Nuitari <nuitari@××××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
3 > > > You need to run a configure script. I don't know exactly where player
4 > > > stores it, but the ebuild should contain/output the information.
5 > >
6 > > They indicate it in the ebuild at the end when the install is done
7 > > /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl
8 > >
9 > > Note that vmware-player and vmware-workstation are mutually exclusive
10 >
11 > Thanks.
12 >
13 > It seems to me that VMware PLayer cannot do what I hoped to do. I want
14 > to run Streetsmart Pro on my Gentoo machine, if possible. However
15 > there isn't going to be a prebuilt copy of SSP ready to run in the
16 > player. It appears that to even try it I'd have to run the
17 > workstation.
18 >
19 > Thanks to all for your help. It's an interesting topic to me.
20
21 You can also use the server. It's not in the tree (bug #122500), and it's
22 officially beta. It is however free as in beer and works properly. The only
23 thing is that it's not really for graphics intensive work as it is network
24 based.
25
26 Paul
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29 Paul de Vrieze
30 Gentoo Developer
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