On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:48:32 +0100
Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:

> For the last couple of days I've been unable to connect to 
> http://overlays.gentoo.org. Can anyone here say what its fate is? I'd quite 
> like to get a copy of the vmware overlay.
> 
You can also just get it without layman:
svn co http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk vmware-overlay