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 1N0ovq-0000dq-NW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:05:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AEBEAE06F3; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:05:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f202.google.com (mail-iw0-f202.google.com [209.85.223.202]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99BD1E06F3 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:05:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn40 with SMTP id 40so3839591iwn.32 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:05:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=bR4O/K8XdkoLu6M1+ilxCAE8NolOnOwGYOHz+N6vJSU=; b=iN9clrmwv+OiRC7HOPl1gb+teFoX0ikpP++Jn5gCZR6TNUem5QMVYlwh1MUJs0jXhC U2+UUwHWFACbq7PaDE3nWTE0vUhJe9WHMKYEtziLFeIutBsPdyUlyF41l99mv8AHPNHy wL4234kKtxMG9brFtSPfbquup/+4ccmlQbja8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VUGYyTi87IpaCAK/IpiTtwgbSpvS5pUQQjEKVERkL35QCgnWNRXVBGKvIIXMpZfCn9 BWg53us6wg/09WBzL0pCQa4VoFvYpyOJITnxPSz1vkq5scktX9jTrlxNybZVEhqkq5IK MKwCBKsb5AT/PmlQpH8SxxB0b7Sh1bjndPdas= 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 Received: by 10.231.20.230 with SMTP id g38mr854961ibb.49.1256184345438; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:05:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20091021153220.4171b33c@dartworks.biz> References: <53e35fd50910202222t222ca3f5mc9ad7ee30953eca8@mail.gmail.com> <20091021131757.4c01f5cb@dartworks.biz> <20091021153220.4171b33c@dartworks.biz> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:05:45 +0800 Message-ID: <53e35fd50910212105w5fa19b78m91899beffde9e9f0@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools From: Xi Shen To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 342d9913-e515-400a-b16c-c73b6a046f63 X-Archives-Hash: c6e957a3e893e61d3eb6c264f4b642ce well, currently i am using the open-vm-tool, which is the open source version. but i want to know if they are the same in function. can someone tell me? thanks. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Keith Dart wrote: > =3D=3D=3D On Wed, 10/21, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: =3D=3D=3D >> Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? =C2=A0(As opposed to runni= ng >> Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.) > > =3D=3D=3D > > Oooh... you mean running Gentoo as a guest. > > Well, you do have to have built a kernel first (or at least a "make > config"). The build sets up some symlinks that building other, > third-party modules need. > > I also have a modified rc script for the tools, that works with openrc. > Let me know if you want it. > > I also have an up-to-date Gentoo x86 server VM with the tools already > installed. > > > -- Keith Dart > > -- > -- -------------------- > Keith Dart > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > --=20 Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/