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On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 19:20 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> Hi, Gentoo. |
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> A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with |
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> virtual machines on my Gentoo. |
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> I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in |
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> directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely looking. |
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> Would somebody please give me some hints which packages I should be |
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> looking at, and perhaps any use flags I might need. |
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They would be under app-emulation. The "virtual" category is for |
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virtual packages (e.g. virtual/editor). |
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You could research Google for Linux visualization. The big 3 open |
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source/semi-open-source are kvm, VirtualBox, and xen. I have personal |
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experience with xen and kvm... and pretty much only use kvm now. |
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The big closed source one is VMware, but, except for legacy |
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requirements, I personally don't know why people (still) use that when |
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the competing open source solutions are typically as good or better than |
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VMWare. |
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As for what USE flags, that would wildly depend on the visualization |
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package you choose (and a billion other ifs). As always, required |
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dependencies are required by the packages themselves, forced USE flags |
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are forced by the packages themselves, anything else is our own personal |
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choice. |
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