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From: Andrey Moshbear <andrey.vul@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay
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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.