Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

Thanks Thierry,
   I'm looking at what to download right now. Did you use the 2.0
release or the 2.1RC?

   If it works I'll be doing a Win XP install within a chroot already
on the machine. We'll see...

Thanks,
Mark

On 3/11/06, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch> wrote:
> On Saturday 11 March 2006 16.30, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > 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
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> As it won't work on my Gentoo amd64 I made the test on a SuSE (I have not
> converted to Gentoo on the laptop yet because I could not get hibernation to
> work correctly). It was as easy as: install rpm with Yast, run the config
> script, install a virtual machine.
>
> I have no experience with chroot'ed environments (except for the one I used
> while setting up Gentoo), so I can't answer your question.
>
> The ebuild emerges correctly, the problem is when you run the configure script
> that should compile the module - so I'd guess this is a problem relatd to the
> fact that /lib does not point to 32 bit libraries.
>
> As far as a chroot'ed environments supplies the right libraries it should
> work.
>
> Thierry
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