[gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

[Tanstaafl]

Hi all,

Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but 
decided against that, and have been playing and reading.

I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting a 
new gentoo vm up and running on my esxi host this weekend.

Can someone point me to some recent/decent docs on best practices for 
this? Ideally gentoo related, but just general linux related would be ok 
too.

Things like vmware-tools installation (is open-vm-tools good enough 
nowadays?), time syncing, snapshots/backups, etc is what I'm looking for.

Thanks,

Charles