* Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP
@ 2010-01-27 16:43 99% ` The Doctor
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From: The Doctor @ 2010-01-27 16:43 UTC (permalink / raw
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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.
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