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 1NaCCn-0005Pi-CA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:01:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E136E0BA2 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:01:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED476E08FE for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:43:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so1302082ewy.26 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:43:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.159.77 with SMTP id r55mr1759816wek.144.1264610635415; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:43:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from windbringer.virtadpt.net (apc.gsfc.nasa.gov [198.119.56.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t12sm139419gvd.20.2010.01.27.08.43.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:43:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B606D47.4070905@virtadpt.net> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:43:51 -0500 From: The Doctor Organization: Virtual Adept Networks, Unlimited User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090902) 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: <5bdc1c8b1001261155p400fd174nc90742c8fe2e5da3@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=807B17C1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 52a9398d-f706-44ad-907a-3f63380f40f9 X-Archives-Hash: 356ea4669cee574adedd414676e7258c -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: > 1) If I go the VMWare route is it vmware-workstation that I want? It depends. Workstation gives you the advantage of having a native application to act as a front-end to the guest OS. Server (at least, the version I installed from Portage a couple of days ago (2.0.2.203138)) doesn't work with that app; the new release forces you to use a web application to interact with it. It's not bad thus far (in my opinion) but if you're used to using something else as to interact with it, it's kind of jarring. Also, the new release of VMware Server assumes that all .iso images and guest OSes go under /var/lib/vmware, while Workstation (I was using 6.5.3.185404) could be configured to put stuff wherever you wanted. Again, not that big a deal. What prompted me to switch back to Server from Workstation is that the version of app-emulation/vmware-modules that Workstation wanted is was v1.0.0.25, which had networking problems (i.e., the VMware pseudo-NICs didn't work more often than they did) with kernels newer than... I want to say v2.6.25 and later. Installing Server pulled in v1.0.0.24-r1, which has been all aces. > 2) Are there any prebuilt XP images that would save me the hassle of > installing Win XP and just allow me to validate with my existing keys? > Is this the purpose of vmware-player? (which doesn't seem to have > fetch restrictions...) I don't know. I was issued one at work when I worked with it. > 3) In some ways the most important question is what are the Open > Source alternatives and how easy are they to set up? VirtualBox is pretty nice but I kept running into problems with guest OSes' traffic egressing unreliably to the LAN. This may not be of concern to you but I found it irritating given what I was doing with it. I haven't used it in about two years, so this may have changed in the interim. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: http://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Never fdisk after midnight. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktgbUcACgkQO9j/K4B7F8EjfACgxxQQDs34+biM4lXO+27mHtLR 9Q8AoPHxk5Qj7nzXFKBFNRX4ZWyUvdQy =s7bu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----