From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FI65u-0003TS-K8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:33:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2BFV1rg009203; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:31:01 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2BFUt7e030989 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:30:57 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i30so868227wra for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:30:54 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZEeLuiMYUxZJAcWenkU8MJRshAr7DIBj4wjtUlXofVSl7ssomEaq2bzZ+R3092a3rfEdJATLnpQHWTPr/Stmci0mGMZphmSI+DCm+K1+GfdmjQT+732BwH8/sYmH9KZ/wrmR6nG+3TinvFDdrp1GIbZpS7hw1jpuZ+zlXJ5wWzs= Received: by 10.35.70.17 with SMTP id x17mr925480pyk; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:30:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.31.3 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:30:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0603110730w334b6ecak8a06e1a7fc7a8081@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:30:54 -0800 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question In-Reply-To: <200603110858.53326.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0603071706p4b9ea8bay8b137d4f7f136f7e@mail.gmail.com> <200603091344.27194.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> <5bdc1c8b0603090630u67019760rc54a2bef388ce673@mail.gmail.com> <200603110858.53326.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2BFUt7e030989 X-Archives-Salt: b72b05f5-1e09-438c-9c12-5260015a527d X-Archives-Hash: 36b4edcd3b4f85f13444e16b068be449 Hi Thierry, It's good news that Parallels worked that well for you that quickly. Was it pretty straight forward to bring up? Any thoughts on whether it would be likely to work in a chroot'ed 32-bit environment on my 64-bit Gentoo machine? Cheers, Mark On 3/10/06, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Thursday 09 March 2006 15.30, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On 3/9/06, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > > On Thursday 09 March 2006 03.45, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Thierry, > > > > Thanks for the response. I tried the player. It emerged but didn't > > > > run complaining that I hadn't configured it. With no good instructions > > > > about to get me through that quickly I've put the idea to bed for now. > > > > I'll revisit it later if it makes sense. > > > > > > > > Thanks much, > > > > Mark > > > > > > I just came accross an article takling about a new program names > > > "parallels" (www.parallels.com) that is supposed to do the same thing as > > > vmware while being less expensive. > > > > > > No ideas as to ebuilds but I'll give it a look - it should be able to run > > > OS/2 and I'd like to see that. > > > > > > Thierry > > > > Very interesting! For $49 it might be worth a try. > > > > Their downloads page for the trial version references a 'Gentoo > > ebuilds archive'. That's a good sign. (I think...) ;-) > > > > Thanks! > > > > - Mark > > Well, I've tested it and now have my good old OS/2 back working, including nfs > network! > But I have that on my notebook - because Parallels doesn't configure on a 64 > bit machine at the time. > I also got news of a new Win4lin Pro version (Win4Lin uses qemu), and they are > promoting their software. > > Also not that while some sell every release (vmware and, it seems, parallels > have you pay every *.x release - Win4lin users have acces to every release > since 1.0, maybe because it never workes properly ;) > > Well, the fact that their machine runs OS/2 geot parallels my money... brings > back a lot of feelings :) > > Thierry > > -- > The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a > capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the > safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? > Frank Zappa > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list