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From: Dave Jones <Dave.Jones@xs4all.nl>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: cannot configure native vmware tools
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:27:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ADF8AC3.6010505@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ADF782C.4060907@xs4all.nl>

Dave Jones wrote on 21/10/09 23:07:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45:
>>> Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules.
>> Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only?  (As opposed to running
>> Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.)

> No.  It works fine with other operating systems too.

Oops. Extract foot from mouth.

Of course emerging vmware-modules is for Gentoo host only.

Guests using other operating systems are fine once you've emerge'd the
host modules.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-21 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-21  5:22 [gentoo-user] cannot configure native vmware tools Xi Shen
2009-10-21 20:17 ` Keith Dart
2009-10-21 20:45   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-10-21 21:07     ` Dave Jones
2009-10-21 22:27       ` Dave Jones [this message]
2009-10-21 22:32     ` Keith Dart
2009-10-22  4:05       ` Xi Shen

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