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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-player-6.0.0.1295980 and gnome?
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 17:29:44
Message-Id: 52C05BFD.2060301@xunil.at
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] vmware-player-6.0.0.1295980 and gnome? by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 Am 27.12.2013 10:08, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
2 >
3 > greets ...
4 >
5 > I was curious again and unmasked the hardmasked gnome-3.10-stuff as
6 > mentioned in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486484
7 >
8 > So far it works fine on both my desktop and thinkpad.
9 >
10 > The only issue I see right now is vmware-player crashing when I want to
11 > open/resume my small Windows-VM. This might have to do with gnome-3.10
12 > or not, no idea!
13 >
14 > Does anyone else here have problems with the player lately? Couldn't
15 > find anything on bgo.
16 >
17 > Maybe I should install a small WM in parallel to check if it's gnome or
18 > not. Recommendations?
19 >
20 > The underlying reason for needing windows in a VM is the fact that I
21 > can't sync my Suunto Ambit2 watch with movescount.com as they don't
22 > provide a linux-binary and the moveslink-windows-binary does not install
23 > with wine here.
24
25 ... installed virtualbox and converted that VM ... works for me.
26 Maybe I stay with this and remove vmware-player.
27
28 S

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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-player-6.0.0.1295980 and gnome? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>