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On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 11:25 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:15:07 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> > I am considering buying a Linux host license of VMware Workstation 6.0 |
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> > when it is released. However, VMware explicitly does not support Gentoo |
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> > hosts. I noticed that 5.5 is in Portage: |
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> Supported in this context mean they will help you if you have problems |
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> related to your host OS. I've run VMware Workstation from 3.0 to 6.0beta |
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> on Gentoo. 6.0 is the first version to provide a 64 bit version and runs |
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> better on my amd64 system than previous versions. |
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> I've currently switched back to 5.5 because I don't know what the upgrade |
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> price is and I won't want to be forced into it because I have created too |
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> many 6.0 VMs: so I converted them back to V5 format and am awaiting an |
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> announcement of the release and prices. |
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emerge layman |
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layman -a vmware |
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I don't add beta software for commercial products into the tree unless |
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it's been authorized by the company. If you want the beta, use the |
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overlay. Once 6.0 goes final, I'll add it to the tree. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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