From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhR8F-0005oq-N3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:13:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26D49E0ABD; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:13:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from web51506.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web51506.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.198]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9ED71E0ABD for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:13:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 72948 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Apr 2008 15:13:35 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=vveCFUgg5ZYN5mTbkMFrEneVB238sCmS/Dy8quNwQlVfx5P52Z5ht/6vY90IFPkDkDotAICpCn2+IL85es6iGtZjwtfTLnFQQNIjbb5gWMyh0mLuQDSdpyeLnYS2iGAHn1NdOrhJ5p7MGaya5B0UOVsXVwsm3+QqU3Nha9byM7E=; X-YMail-OSG: HPXvbYQVM1mZZai7fuAWZ.eiC01iZZSVu7qmCA9Tsl_C.77QkJAXWqIpf6GgFhw4dg-- Received: from [69.108.166.167] by web51506.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:13:35 PDT Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:13:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Kenji Tan Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20080402235042.31f09ab0@acme.acmenet> 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/alternative; boundary="0-870212282-1207235615=:72797" Message-ID: <663625.72797.qm@web51506.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e5211dae-3df1-47b6-bcb5-9bab9b62a000 X-Archives-Hash: e2d501a2c0a76ce1635fb87f96160f16 --0-870212282-1207235615=:72797 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The link to the site: http://www.easyvmx.com/ luis jure wrote: El Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:12:15 +0200 "b.n."=20 escribi=F3: > My experience with vmware itself (I use vmware-player and that known=20 > website that creates images, I don't remember the url) is a lot=20 > smoother. However I never tried to run a system already installed on=20 > another partition. that's a good question. does anyone know if vmware-player can run a system already installed on a different partition? =20 > I've never tried Virtualbox, but I heard a lot of praise on it. Can > it run a system installed on a disk partition? i just discovered virtualbox, it looks like an interesting alternative. has anyone tried it? after reading michael's experience i'm not very enthusiastic about installing vmware... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list --0-870212282-1207235615=:72797 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The link to the site:

http://www.easyvmx.com/



luis jure <ljc@internet.com.uy> wrote:
El Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:12:15 +0200
"b.n." escribi=F3:

> My experience with vmware it= self (I use vmware-player and that known
> website that creates im= ages, I don't remember the url) is a lot
> smoother. However I nev= er tried to run a system already installed on
> another partition.=

that's a good question. does anyone know if vmware-player can run= a
system already installed on a different partition?


>= I've never tried Virtualbox, but I heard a lot of praise on it. Can
&= gt; it run a system installed on a disk partition?

i just discover= ed virtualbox, it looks like an interesting alternative.
has anyone tr= ied it? after reading michael's experience i'm not very
enthusiastic about installing vmware...
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