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 1NZz6F-0004mm-Ok for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:01:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F0B0E0946 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:01:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com (mail-px0-f174.google.com [209.85.216.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B560E0883 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:33:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi4 with SMTP id 4so3617843pxi.32 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:33:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=5d9yH2N9eDfSYKljdcBjRAOL/TEbpzwskTivyLqz6mM=; b=qZyKILeHWhWk8UYVe0psIQcrmNxLCpkqZi2+x0NBzNKb8PKnPQdqyTK4ZWIo2zrMmc 1/QTJwPmzFo2oxM3GvLR5CJ/wmYFTeuCGBtgTJfGm+oSlNJD58TPAh0m2EVFKhVqkqWB Jkm94PXrT0u/QAGrlOfV5K4t4b6OpNttdGgw8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=oMV91sht513+FyaYzALOgaIWPb/HioOasTcFBIm62JYh770pvL4lTKlfNiYkOJQBbd R4bEJO33K8oHz8bGLPPAI+DwKCOHQxJq10b85OUwlyqi3xmJzK7rEEeWcd57B6sphZ79 dKtF8J6RqPilQgEp+z1cj0EjKbCTaRua584oM= 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 Received: by 10.143.26.13 with SMTP id d13mr5959358wfj.0.1264559600476; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:33:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B5F958C.6010705@gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b1001261155p400fd174nc90742c8fe2e5da3@mail.gmail.com> <4B5F958C.6010705@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:33:20 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1001261833x7b47041bqd4263073e6d52bc5@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 90293f79-8242-483c-b9f4-6274831d2050 X-Archives-Hash: a945d1f26f98f6a827c659f7f6e2e0b9 On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Lie Ryan wrote: > 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. > > I still have two WinXP images I created a year ago sitting around when I tried the workstation. I suppose I can probably use those somehow with the Player? - Mark