Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

[Dave Jones]

Dave Jones wrote on 21/10/09 23:07:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45:
>>> Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules.
>> Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only?  (As opposed to running
>> Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.)

> No.  It works fine with other operating systems too.

Oops. Extract foot from mouth.

Of course emerging vmware-modules is for Gentoo host only.

Guests using other operating systems are fine once you've emerge'd the
host modules.