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 1RSy8p-0002m4-HD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:44:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F232121C053; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:44:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E489C21C01F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf25 with SMTP id 25so7942699wwf.4 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:42:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ojoa3TOoaXi1W5UOvAkw7OBM6hYrHaY/eXAJiaA8MBI=; b=StC1EuWTRJ5qyR4wgHnklWCRVXg8FomfzGGdtIKFVdU4P0fdlyOYV6p8r9Uk8DNiqU XXfAqZ8xU331OsmncIktZAx21TO3tJcjLZzPTT8kXsVbihV5yGWoAJt0tiSpKEWqlItM OzeWj/fghTkDGUrDNCm2zfb8SQZdBkqY8Yp9o= Received: by 10.227.60.21 with SMTP id n21mr12729405wbh.2.1321998166002; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:42:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com ([196.215.144.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ep13sm18058357wbb.8.2011.11.22.13.42.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:42:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:42:40 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please. Message-ID: <20111122234240.6af55d0b@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <4ECC0297.2080503@desaster-games.com> References: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm> <4ECC0297.2080503@desaster-games.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1ff8f782-d572-4cd9-a093-65cfb86dc13e X-Archives-Hash: 607d796a65d345953b49d6f3ef78988a On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:14:15 +0100 Felix Kuperjans wrote: > > Would somebody please give me some hints which packages I should be > > looking at, and perhaps any use flags I might need. > VirtualBox is quite easy for beginners, but requires external kernel > modules and requires a GUI (what you most probably want anyway). That's not true. VBoxHeadless implements practically everything you can do in the gui, and the built-in RDP server lets you connect from other machines so the host doesn't need to run a gui either. A GUI is strongly recommended, some thing are just easier with pointy-clicky, but it's far from required. External kernel modules are no big deal either. You need the same with VMWare. It's just a package you emerge and modules-rebuild is there to help you remember what must be rebuilt with every kernel build. These days you have to do the same with xorg-modules whenever you upgrade Xorg, so even that is not an issue anymore. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com