From: Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:23:24 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B5F958C.6010705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea5d4e0d1001261347y22f1911aq7ac7561baeb493e8@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/27/10 08:47, Marko Obrovac wrote:
> Hello Mark,
>
> 2010/1/26 Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
>
<snip>
>>
>> 1) If I go the VMWare route is it vmware-workstation that I want?
>>
<snip>
> You might want to try vmware-player (if you want to go the
> vmware way). It is free, but it comes with restrictions. The major
> disadvantage is - you can't create your own images, you can only "play"
> them.
Not exactly. VMWare Player's [.vmx] configuration file is a simple
plain-text file and you can pretty much create your own disk image for
any OS from blank disk image (downloadable). One of my first Linux
machine was Ubuntu on VMWare Player from blank disk image (though I did
copy the base config file from a pre-made, customizing the .vmx file is
near-trivial).
I believe there are also some 3rd party software for creating VMWare
configuration file, though I never used them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-27 2:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-26 19:55 [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP Mark Knecht
2010-01-26 20:52 ` [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP Nikos Chantziaras
2010-01-26 21:47 ` [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP Marko Obrovac
2010-01-27 0:11 ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-27 0:23 ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-27 9:01 ` Sebastian Beßler
2010-01-27 9:55 ` Marc Joliet
2010-01-27 13:02 ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-27 14:41 ` Beso
2010-01-27 17:25 ` The Doctor
2010-01-27 18:11 ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-27 23:30 ` Beso
2010-01-28 15:05 ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-27 1:23 ` Lie Ryan [this message]
2010-01-27 2:33 ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-26 22:01 ` Paul Hartman
2010-01-27 16:43 ` The Doctor
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