Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Thursday 09 March 2006 15:51, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 3/9/06, Nuitari <nuitari@melchior.nuitari.net> wrote:
> > > You need to run a configure script. I don't know exactly where player
> > > stores it, but the ebuild should contain/output the information.
> >
> > They indicate it in the ebuild at the end when the install is done
> > /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl
> >
> > Note that vmware-player and vmware-workstation are mutually exclusive
>
> Thanks.
>
> It seems to me that VMware PLayer cannot do what I hoped to do. I want
> to run Streetsmart Pro on my Gentoo machine, if possible. However
> there isn't going to be a prebuilt copy of SSP ready to run in the
> player. It appears that to even try it I'd have to run the
> workstation.
>
> Thanks to all for your help. It's an interesting topic to me.

You can also use the server. It's not in the tree (bug #122500), and it's 
officially beta. It is however free as in beer and works properly. The only 
thing is that it's not really for graphics intensive work as it is network 
based.

Paul

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