Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: VMWare Workstation install

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

I took a quick look this morning. I think there is some support for
Win 7/8 on 64-bit systems. I am attempting to bring up KVM now. May
have something to say in a few days. Would be very helpful to know how
to convert a VB VM as full installed take a lot more time.

Cheers

On 2/4/15, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> Rich Freeman posted on Wed, 04 Feb 2015 13:02:02 -0500 as excerpted:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tamas Karpati <tkarpati@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for your toughts. Following your suggestion I'm going to
>>> evaluate VB while experimenting a bit more with WS.
>>> I think I'll let them compete.
>>
>> If you're going to consider something new I'd certainly look at KVM as
>> well (libvirt/virt-manager/etc).
>
> Since I can't/won't agree to EULAs I don't run proprietary, and would
> strongly prefer KVM here.  However...
>
> Last I knew KVM didn't support MS-based VMs.  Has that changed?  Because
> while if anything that's a positive for me, it's going to put KVM out of
> the running for many, if it's still true.
>
> And if kvm supports MS VMs now, I'd like to know that, as it could come
> in handy in the next thread like this, even if I'll never be using it
> myself (unless someone else, say an employer, is taking responsibility
> for that EULA thing I won't personally agree to).  =:^)
>
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