From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PB8TQ-0002pr-8Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:03:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32253E08E9; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:02:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5102E08E9 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:02:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.151] (helo=smtp19.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PB8SP-0001T5-Oc for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:02:33 +0200 Received: from 5ed3454e.cm-7-4b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.211.69.78] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp19.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PB8SO-0000Sp-TT for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:02:32 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324B221BC for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:02:32 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8suwGFJFInsC for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:02:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA7951F73 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:02:31 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:02:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <1287985076.3454.25.camel@localhost> <20101025180551.0186ba58@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <201010252302.33146.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201010252302.33146.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010271802.31559.joost@antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1PB8SO-0000Sp-TT X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-2.599, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 13bff33c-9903-482d-8422-f2837189c49c X-Archives-Hash: 6bbf4bb873f8e41d0cc210c5658f7710 On Monday 25 October 2010 23:02:32 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 19:05 on Monday 25 October 2010, Neil > Bothwick > > did opine thusly: > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:55:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > Not what you asked for, but my advise is to upgrade to a newer version > > > of Workstation :P 7.1.2 is the current version (and it's in the > > > "vmware" overlay.) > > > > $100+tax is a lot to pay to upgrade something you only use sporadically. > > This is also not the kind of solution you wanted, but I got fed up with the > eternal bullshit of dealing with vmware. All that nonsense with aany-any > not actually building with a kernel more recent than $X months where X is > always kinda large..... > > Installed VirtualBox. Build/get new appliance if necessary. All issues > sorted. Or simply convert the images from VMWare to VirtualBox (takes some effort, but is doable...)