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 1NaE57-0007kr-Kl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:01:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2235E09D7 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:01:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com (mail-pw0-f47.google.com [209.85.160.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71704E0B21 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:11:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj10 with SMTP id 10so4293268pwj.26 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:11:54 -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=pcErIThz/NsA1/t6dTNNzImnsQqPuV08pgVQw3jcs8E=; b=xw4Ku/yw0Y+Xh2arAZ1TZdmNnWxSPJOhNXcQenxfAkM0lQlZuj76kJHVxV9J4Mm3Yv 9b1youKhJCVelH6CNf5SRMEjAFl/qXhtbqHiuDVqrPW0DaFb5Av0cu6zoypYDCpZ9wxV zN9FFbwV7TBYu9ttLXsEAnUGMFr8KhDBbhEm0= 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=czO4775cL/dknrry2JabE+wj08K94Z1CCv2BQfFB8QCplCar7LpsJ/rqnOepwkAd6H XXHO/91qaSVkkOtQSuLcsQx6feWTP2dUYUjJyqfJwVISOPRkgeI58nx+AjfjCDrZ+I94 SLfZXLrV7LL3wZ9gC+l/4w05mvXr5EsMYwxz4= 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 10.142.247.22 with SMTP id u22mr160398wfh.298.1264615913881; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:11:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B60770D.4040707@virtadpt.net> References: <5bdc1c8b1001261155p400fd174nc90742c8fe2e5da3@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b1001261611q5dc0f426ued2c1ab7e75e897b@mail.gmail.com> <4B60770D.4040707@virtadpt.net> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:11:53 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1001271011j477e46e4h4070af06319f4b4f@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: 8a1be8ee-7fb7-47eb-b885-a99cf2777b65 X-Archives-Hash: 11974b2008978819db820af123c1af1d On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:25 AM, The Doctor wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> The last time I looked at this (maybe a year ago?) I decided that the >> vmware-workstation would let a home user run something like two >> instances without charges. Not free in that I'm limited to something >> specific but no cost. (Is that free beer? It certainly doesn't sound >> like Free Speech...) > > There is also a 60-day time limit on the un-paid-for version of VMware > Workstation, as I recall. > > - -- > > The Doctor [412/724/301/703] I got VirtualBox up and running with XP but nothing much more yesterday as I ran into XP licensing issues again with M$ and sort of backed off. I tried vmware-workstation nearly a year ago and it worked but I didn't have a real need for it so it languished on my system which went up in smoke about 2 weeks ago. Yesterday I tried vmware-player and found it played my Win XP/Kaspersky/SP2 images just fine. So far all I've had to do was install SP3 and I seem to be good to go so I'll use this until I run into a reason to change or have more time to work with VirtualBox. I haven't figured out what's up with vmware-player networking yet. I can get to the web in a browser just fine, do updates through M$ Update, do GMail. It looks perfect. However WinSCP running in vmware-player isn't yet finding other machines on my network. IIRC there were different models of networking you could set up. I have to go back and relearn that stuff but it's not critical to me until I determine if the new machine is really fast enough to run TradeStation and, very importantly, if the networking is stable enough and transparent enough to allow me to connect to their network for real futures trading. That will force me to dig in if it isn't OK right now. We'll see...Time will tell...Did you hear the about the guy who walked into a bar... - Mark