[gentoo-user] vmware overlay

[gentoo-user] vmware overlay

[p014r834r]

Hi all.

	I am just about to use vmware overlay, and I was wondering if anyone 
had any problems/issues using it.

Cheers,
p014r834r


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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 28 May 2007, p014r834r wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> 	I am just about to use vmware overlay, and I was wondering if anyone
> had any problems/issues using it.

Yeah, one issue:

Why isn't vmware-workstation-6.* in the portage tree yet?

OK, I'm just kidding (there's testing to be done). Generally it works 
fine, but right now I can't get vmware's modules to load and work 
right. Dunno why. Previously the ebuilds worked well.

Mind you, there's always Murphy. So add the overlay to your system, and 
emerge away. If it doesn't work, you'll soon know about it and can 
revert back

alan

 

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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay

[p014r834r]

Alan McKinnon escreveu:
> On Monday 28 May 2007, p014r834r wrote:
>   
>> Hi all.
>>
>> 	I am just about to use vmware overlay, and I was wondering if anyone
>> had any problems/issues using it.
>>     
>
> Yeah, one issue:
>
> Why isn't vmware-workstation-6.* in the portage tree yet?
>
> OK, I'm just kidding (there's testing to be done). Generally it works 
> fine, but right now I can't get vmware's modules to load and work 
> right. Dunno why. Previously the ebuilds worked well.
>
>   
I could install VMware6 manually and it worked fine (except setting some 
env variable).

> Mind you, there's always Murphy. So add the overlay to your system, and 
> emerge away. If it doesn't work, you'll soon know about it and can 
> revert back
>
>   
I installed it and pulled vmplayer 2.0. It seemed to word fine... let´s see.
> alan
>
>  
>   
p014r834r

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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 29 May 2007 13:50:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> OK, I'm just kidding (there's testing to be done). Generally it works 
> fine, but right now I can't get vmware's modules to load and work 
> right. Dunno why. Previously the ebuilds worked well.

The modules ebuild is for WS5. There's a bug about this somewhere, but
for now I've installed WS6 using the VMware script and it's working fine.


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