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Coincidence, installed Gentoo on a WinXP VMWare today and I use VMWare it at |
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work. |
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The only difference is that you don't need all the livecd drivers. |
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Maybe an doc for the specific installation is sufficient with a working |
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kernel-config just like in the gentoo-wiki but an official one. Oh yeah... |
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and submit to VMWare also. There's a lot of docs about other distros in the |
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main site [1] but no Gentoo there. |
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The vmware-linux-tools is not up2date. I'll try to update the 5.0.0 ebuild |
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and put it in bugs.g.o |
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I'm using workstation 5.5.1 and it as 32bits and 64bits binaries/drivers. |
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[1]: http://www.vmware.com/support/guestnotes/doc/ |
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On 3/5/06, Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez <bass@g.o> wrote: |
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> I think that it's a nice idea. |
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> Maybe 2 versions: with X and w/o X just to reduce the space needed. |
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> Can be great to try gentoo inside any other linux or win machine. Can |
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> be great too to try new systems ebuilds or to test things. |
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> El 04/03/2006, a las 8:32, Kalin KOZHUHAROV escribió: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > I finally get to test the new 2006.0 LiveCD and the new installer (GUI |
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> > version). It certainly has many kinks to be ironed out, but it is a |
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> > great new start! |
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> > I am now waiting for the install on a vmware-workstation-5.5 while |
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> > reading what Google had to say about "VMWare Gentoo"... |
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> > A few quick ideas: |
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> > 1. Wouldn't be great if we have a pre-built VMWare machine that gets |
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> > released with every new Gentoo release? |
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> > The problems: |
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> > Somebody has to do it: /me is trying, somebody else already |
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> > using it? |
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> > As it will be pre-installed Gentoo, the many options that the |
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> > installer provides will be already pre-shoosen... However Gentoo |
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> > is flexible enough to change them after that. |
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> > Somebody has to host it: not sure how does this fit inside |
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> > Gentoo mirrors, it will probably be the size of a LiveCD |
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> > Somebody has to support it: how many devs and how many skilled |
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> > users are there for gentoo on vmware? |
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> > It depends on commercial closed-source software... Ir is it |
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> > useful with VMPlayer only? |
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> > Yeah, and the HOWTO [1] has to be updated... |
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> > [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/ |
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> > HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_VMware_in_Windows_NT/2K/XP |
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> > What is it worth: |
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> > For windoze people it will be a great way to experience/play |
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> > with Gentoo |
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> > |
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> > For the challengers, using hardmasked-and-brake-my-gentoo |
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> > ebuilds in a nice snadbox will be easy |
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> > Just a quick preview of the next release or any other feature |
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> > bug |
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> > 2. As a result of idea 1 and using the info from [2] the Gentoo |
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> > community can get lots of fame and some people can get some money. |
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> > [2] http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/challenge/ |
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> > Kalin. |
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> > -- |
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> > |[ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ]| |
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> > +-> http://ThinRope.net/ <-+ |
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> > |[ ______________________ ]| |
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