From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZxGC-0003Zs-GQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:04:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2967AE0B8D for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:04:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.149]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD48E07EF for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so1140217eyg.40 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:24:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Jll3xkGNE/Ho4YUqy0wcuPu14yVf3yQvTB55zGctCTw=; b=kgi0lyHg2KcK6PdS+wLttxTKmE/sBRgNexemXtS2Cy6tZ/xXdM5E2xqWb3n2guAR19 aWHKFOVst+3KUvOnm4BM4KYkGrLnxlEU/F0o5H77Ch5sujts9NZPKQxkn/utCTAJgWo9 4tr2n5T9M6U1JHj/7YwdktYr1fD0Wshnq5Wy0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=uLeCQQ7xsvWdvuu39sxZac9BfoW/KsY6082Uky/QJRpSfsDUcRs2SEMk+eznEnxPmo LP6c6uyEKbYU8CpTgbfF7OfPL3AgmBFGu28UAaxix1U4Kr/dfOtVT5JBGD4YtYEUtXzP cWHaksSDKw6THXVmx5hhCT/pzouluuzTnfNHU= Received: by 10.213.1.18 with SMTP id 18mr1830284ebd.17.1264555457067; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:24:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.3? (220-244-191-79.static.tpgi.com.au [220.244.191.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm5665012ewy.1.2010.01.26.17.24.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:24:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B5F958C.6010705@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:23:24 +1100 From: Lie Ryan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20100112 Thunderbird/3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP References: <5bdc1c8b1001261155p400fd174nc90742c8fe2e5da3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 281e2695-4f33-4a62-a98c-2442e1602de5 X-Archives-Hash: 7ebf96b560ed00683fe7ecc44ce34070 On 01/27/10 08:47, Marko Obrovac wrote: > Hello Mark, > > 2010/1/26 Mark Knecht > >> >> 1) If I go the VMWare route is it vmware-workstation that I want? >> > 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.