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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:56:41
Message-Id: 1201877782.13002.14.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not? by Jerry McBride
1 On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 09:40 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
2 > On Friday 01 February 2008 08:21:38 am Michael Sullivan wrote:
3 > > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:32 +0100, Pintér Tibor wrote:
4 > > > works fine more me, and always worked.
5 > > > workstation 5.5 has issues with it though, so upgrade to 6.0.x
6 > > >
7 > > > t
8 > > >
9 > > > Peter Humphrey wrote:
10 > > > > On Wednesday 30 January 2008 19:58:26 Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
11 > > > >> I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have
12 > > > >> searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours
13 > > > >> experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out
14 > > > >> and has never worked since.
15 > > > >
16 > > > > On the other hand, it's working just fine here on 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. Not
17 > > > > much consolation, I suppose, but at least it does work some of the
18 > > > > time, for some people.
19 > >
20 > > Hos anyone been able to get 6.0.2 to work? I tried to evaluate it, but
21 > > everything crashes when I try to enter the serial number. There's an
22 > > outstanding bug at b.g.o and I filed a support request about a week ago
23 > > with VMWare, but they haven't touched it yet...
24 >
25 > Hmmm... With all the fresh posts about vware, I too tried it recently and my
26 > results were the same as yours... clich help, enter serial number and bang...
27 > crash. I thought it was me... :')
28 >
29 > Try virtualbox... similar to vmware.
30 >
31 > --
32 >
33 >
34 > From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride
35
36 I did try VirtualBox, but my network games don't work (like
37 Civilization II - my wife running Win98 can't connect to me) and
38 Civilization III fails because some security module can't be found...
39
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Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not? Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>