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 1PBEIY-00089x-6o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:16:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AD62E0AAC; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D44E0AAC for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb31 with SMTP id 31so1171873wwb.10 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:16:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; 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=8oQtJW8WwLj28+baTiT3GDWa1NeK0Xuul2S/iu0nz1s=; b=vDHyDYBU2JjyxHYSjqftBKrnNhSz4yhMzFqNrE4sP/9qy1MfYalhP6Kp5l5U+Ba/Sm q3gRjPZ6qRvcBj1gRVgfCR14xkQOMJgw74VJK5bMqB6RUQ3hDQNNDNlIcIwAkbHh/nwn T5NejKafr17CgTNCpUSRqbSFXSGA6aLQIyNYY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=nUO9KCg94YGsMqs8SYsuxPdMx1iWQ/wauL2Y5L4kcOeYZ2nr+a6ULGVFRdT1BNSm63 fIawNGRIHle5OMkwpoEjjBHQbZ+4klWOxYJgb46/PF/Z/LSZiTY/lcurYqfLqs/iVQLZ FAz8RH+Ya/wTt8tuldUSf6pRSiPYsZ0twQnqE= Received: by 10.227.145.136 with SMTP id d8mr9829496wbv.172.1288217793684; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:16:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h29sm265393wbc.9.2010.10.27.15.16.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:16:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:16:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo-r11; 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3175892.5OQkLOSvnT"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010272316.30073.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ddc94ccf-8f0b-40c0-86d2-e7c5a3bcd880 X-Archives-Hash: 97c45cf6cb22cba69b49e3d6be7bc9fb --nextPart3175892.5OQkLOSvnT Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 25 October 2010 22:02:32 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 19:05 on Monday 25 October 2010, Neil > Bothwick >=20 > 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.) > >=20 > > $100+tax is a lot to pay to upgrade something you only use sporadically. >=20 > This is also not the kind of solution you wanted, but I got fed up with t= he > 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..... >=20 > Installed VirtualBox. Build/get new appliance if necessary. All issues > sorted. +1 The binary is particularly quick & easy to install & set up (for personal=20 use). =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3175892.5OQkLOSvnT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkzIpL4ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZdmwCgvXPzNxJmwx4w3o0axV8c0WFJ ZQUAn3NCZn94mMKKUVUTL3Hu8rEdBW19 =RXgr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3175892.5OQkLOSvnT--