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* [gentoo-user] Re: Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay
  @ 2011-10-20 10:57 99%         ` Nikos Chantziaras
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From: Nikos Chantziaras @ 2011-10-20 10:57 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 10/20/2011 12:56 PM, Andrey Moshbear wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 05:53, Stefan G. Weichinger<lists@xunil.at>  wrote:
>> Am 19.10.2011 23:14, schrieb Mark Knecht:
>>
>>> I've decided to stick with vmware-player-3.1.4 for use as a Netflix VM
>>> only. All of my real work is done in Virtualbox VMs using both 32-bit
>>> NT and 64-bit Win 7. The only problem I've had recently is that my
>>> dual monitor Win 7 VM tends to 'abort' about 40% of the time when
>>> starting. Once it's up and running it's fine, but getting it started
>>> on any day is pretty much hit-or-miss.
>>
>> hmm, nothing I long for ---
>>
>> I stay w/ vmware-player-3.1.5 for now (out of vmware-overlay).
>>
>> Thanks, S
>>
>
> I've had rather pleasant experiences with virtualbox. Less
> libhell/libnazism, too.
> Plus, less drivers to modprobe (just vboxdrv, vboxnet as needed)
> instead of the 4 or so needed for vmware.

You don't modprobe.  There's /etc/init.d/vmware which you add to the 
default runlevel or simply start manually with "/etc/init.d/vmware start".




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2011-10-19 21:14       ` Mark Knecht
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