From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhFYb-0003EZ-Pl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:52:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8416FE0778; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 02:52:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.tecnet.com.uy (smtp.tecnet.com.uy [200.40.123.43]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117E5E0778 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 02:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from acme.acmenet (r190-134-135-106.dialup.adsl.anteldata.net.uy [190.134.135.106]) by smtp.tecnet.com.uy (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m332peMl006564 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 23:51:46 -0300 (envelope-from ljc@internet.com.uy) X-TN_STAT: 8233 Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 23:50:42 -0300 From: luis jure To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware? Message-ID: <20080402235042.31f09ab0@acme.acmenet> In-Reply-To: <47F412CF.7020606@gmail.com> References: <20080402191020.2707f383@acme.acmenet> <20080402153707.4a6fb58c@lbg2.evolone.org> <47F412CF.7020606@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 0a04e237-b214-4409-bed3-4d9eeaca443f X-Archives-Hash: bacbccc712f55e4f017b2a198e7865e8 El Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:12:15 +0200 "b.n." escribi=F3: > My experience with vmware itself (I use vmware-player and that known=20 > website that creates images, I don't remember the url) is a lot=20 > smoother. However I never tried to run a system already installed on=20 > another partition. that's a good question. does anyone know if vmware-player can run a system already installed on a different partition? =20 > I've never tried Virtualbox, but I heard a lot of praise on it. Can > it run a system installed on a disk partition? i just discovered virtualbox, it looks like an interesting alternative. has anyone tried it? after reading michael's experience i'm not very enthusiastic about installing vmware... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list