From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:16:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010272316.30073.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010252302.33146.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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On Monday 25 October 2010 22:02:32 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.
+1
The binary is particularly quick & easy to install & set up (for personal
use).
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-25 5:37 [gentoo-user] vmware - help Iain Buchanan
2010-10-25 16:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-10-25 17:05 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-10-25 21:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-10-27 16:02 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-10-27 22:16 ` Mick [this message]
2010-10-25 21:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2010-10-25 21:50 ` Adam Carter
2010-10-26 1:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Iain Buchanan
2010-10-26 3:02 ` Adam Carter
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