Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMWare Workstation install

[Tamas Karpati <tkarpati@gmail.com>]

Dear Mark,

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. The investment side of the fight is
already won by VB, as its site misses the pricing section whereas
WS just increased its upgrade fee. (Just because I once purchased
one I'm not bonded to it.) Contrary, I would never give up the
freedom brought by Gentoo, thus moving to another platform is
not an option.

I hope that WS (nice tool, indeed, I also used it for several years)
will soon work with Gentoo. Since I don't need to stick to any,
I may end up using both, each in its particular area.

Best regards,
  toma


On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:34 AM, Tamas Karpati <tkarpati@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> 1. Failed installing VMWare Workstation 10.* (WS) along with any
>> gentoo-sources (swept all stable and latest ~amd64 versions recent days),
>>
>> 2. seeing many solutions of remarkably few types re-appearing
>> on the net after several version bumps but still
>>
>> 3. having 0 (zero) stable versions of WS in the portage tree
>>
>> I would like to ask you about the appropriate steps to make in order
>> to have a stable working WS on my Gentoo box without having
>> to mix things up with overlays (I never used them and unsure
>> about spending the effort for just a workaround).
>>
>> Another question would be whether WS will ever go stable in the
>> portage tree (temporary state of the corresponding packages) or
>> this is the intended conduction of developement?
>> You know, a field Gentoo user never knows why is a pkg unstable...
>>
>> Thanks for your time,
>>   toma
>>
>
> Hi Toma,
>    I cannot offer any recent experiences with VMWare on Gentoo. Maybe
> 5-6 years ago I was using the workstation product but I had numerous
> issues that sound similar to yours and eventually gave up on it.
>
>    Since that time I've been using the ~amd64 version of Virtualbox
> nearly daily. (Since 2008-2009 I think...) I run two VMs each running
> Win 7 in which I run 2 different trading platforms along with other
> Windows apps. As a workstation I've had remarkably few real issues
> with it other than graphics performance where it really lags behind
> VMWare's virtual graphics device. That said graphics performance isn't
> critical to my needs so I'm quite happy. In fact recently NetFlix
> started supporting watching streaming videos in a Linux browser (I use
> Chrome for most everything) without having to use a Windows VM so I've
> retired the 3rd VB VM that I used to use for that.
>
>    If graphics performance, or for some reason using specifically a
> VMWare product is important to you, then you might be better off on a
> Linux platform they support directly like Ubuntu or Redhat, etc. I
> personally wouldn't go there but it's probably a more dependable and
> less maintenance if you did.
>
> HTH,
> Mark
>