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

[Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch>]

On Saturday 11 March 2006 17.58, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Thanks Thierry,
>    I'm looking at what to download right now. Did you use the 2.0
> release or the 2.1RC?
>
>    If it works I'll be doing a Win XP install within a chroot already
> on the machine. We'll see...
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

The trial download proposed 2.1 Beta 2 and that's what I used. If you 
purchase, you get a 2.0 key (that does not work on 2.1!) but you should get 
the good key soon when they release 2.1

So I'd test 2.1, as it seems stable - I've got OS72 working with nfs in very 
little time.
The only thing I could not get to work is the (real) cd rom. Parallels say 
someting about needing rights on the cdrom (chmod a+r) but it does not seem 
to work, anything I try I can only mount an iso file.

However, given nfs access, it's not a problem, even more as os/2 is installed 
mostly because I have a lot of old files requiring os/2 programs and because 
I was ready to spend $50 to get old feelings back :)

On gentoo I can use vmware on the rare cases where I have to fire up Windows.

Thierry


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