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 1RH0su-000764-3F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:14:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7140621C075; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:14:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com (postler.lichtfels.com [78.46.92.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7981F21C02A for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:13:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9651429B; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:18:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (postler.lichtfels.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 19884-04; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:18:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hiro.oops.intern (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B861114297; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:18:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4EA09D06.2070505@xunil.at> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:13:26 +0200 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111003 Thunderbird/7.0.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org CC: Mark Knecht Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay References: <4E97648B.8030900@xunil.at> <4E9F3B82.1000407@xunil.at> <4E9FEF95.8040601@xunil.at> <4EA013CF.1070706@xunil.at> <4EA021F0.9050506@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2a X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 760edf6995305e908ec175203dbdb36e Am 20.10.2011 18:47, schrieb Mark Knecht: > The following is more for my own to do list. Feel free to respond if > you know of a good Gentoo oriented web page for using KVM. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KVM ? > - I believe I've read that somehow I can convert my VMware Player > image to something that KVM runs directly. Is that correct? If so I > can move there pretty quickly, at least in terms of a simple test. KVM is able to use (some versions) of vmdk-files, yes. Converting images is also possible, for examples see: http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/convert-vmware-vmdk-to-kvm-qcow2-or-virtualbox-vdi/ > - I suppose there's a bunch of kernel config I need to do first, as > well as emerge some sort of KVM apps? See mentioned wiki-page for a start. Stefan