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 1JhXDH-000534-Ft for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:43:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91D73E0967; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54745E0967 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 13so3964823fge.14 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:43:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=OAUBOVGLWY3u7RotiBYHpbzzUlTtXnupqfIxMkBGYEc=; b=hczPRzmXbZc3JUWrZTS1C5ndsBKiuPcK5wIO5DIql726TmxroSPZssCHXBe06t+NL6cZEt0FHvAfs5jrFmxapV4aRTemhisudZgDpiBrrP1XOLEpKcncnh+x47OYAtsUACrbyueWKgJT2SU3BMSfkPiIWbmI5BsyeRSyrTJ6eVI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=slCJ/jP+LsQMLByJiRKjTR/MrnZM9ZkoETA9SRS35fztsIIZ1lWmnjH3faQMSZ2S+8o614CKudWR5WGPA1H+DmcxsgIXM0MW1XDHIpcx35N6TwCA24TKnvoL66nyQH9WeBmbhV1yue4mZqeu3BgROi+6Kx5BkQf2262c/v9bohI= Received: by 10.86.27.9 with SMTP id a9mr200092fga.62.1207258992740; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study ( [212.159.46.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e20sm2689993fga.1.2008.04.03.14.43.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:43:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware? Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 22:40:38 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080402191020.2707f383@acme.acmenet> <47F412CF.7020606@gmail.com> <20080402235042.31f09ab0@acme.acmenet> In-Reply-To: <20080402235042.31f09ab0@acme.acmenet> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1262131.xIoRfJck3l"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200804032240.49314.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4e79a35a-d4f3-46a6-b4fe-3a185f9c0c22 X-Archives-Hash: 006a3482e2d4917a7160ea5cb93696c3 --nextPart1262131.xIoRfJck3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 03 April 2008, luis jure wrote: > 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 > > website that creates images, I don't remember the url) is a lot > > smoother. However I never tried to run a system already installed on > > another partition. > > that's a good question. does anyone know if vmware-player can run a > system already installed on a different partition? > > > 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... I am about to try virtualbox on my wifes machine. According to the manual = you=20 can run an existing installation (using raw disk access) but a number of=20 other problems make this less of a practical solution for me; e.g. you must= =20 shut the VM down before you can dual boot into it normally, you have to=20 register it in VM afresh, etc. There may be workarounds to the registratio= n=20 issue though: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-579333.html What I haven't worked out yet is this. Can I create an image from the=20 original installation and use this with the VM? How do I go about this? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1262131.xIoRfJck3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBH9U7h5Fp0QerLYPcRAhP1AJ9IF/gB6zAx6UEWoSKK1IW0FZp3VQCfUjQb JgtYwEVuHndGLr3cvRnEyrM= =Lf5t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1262131.xIoRfJck3l-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list