From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:38:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+ed777oD83G4ZOR1inmRu8E-mpwZR35_5Vq6yBJ-PxAtyg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm>
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> Hi, Gentoo.
>
> A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with
> virtual machines on my Gentoo.
>
> I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in
> directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely looking.
>
> Would somebody please give me some hints which packages I should be
> looking at, and perhaps any use flags I might need.
>
> TVM
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>
>
The two biggies are VMware (closed source) and Virtualbox. (Open
Source) I use both but am slowly leaving VMware behind.
There are others I've never used like kvm, xen, qemu.
HTH,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-22 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 19:20 [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please Alan Mackenzie
2011-11-22 19:38 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2011-11-22 19:43 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-22 20:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-22 23:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-23 12:57 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-23 13:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-23 13:54 ` Marc Joliet
2011-11-23 13:59 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-23 14:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-11-23 9:17 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-11-23 11:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-23 11:45 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-11-23 12:20 ` Joseph Davis
2011-11-23 12:59 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-11-23 13:17 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-23 13:57 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-11-23 13:51 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-23 15:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-23 15:27 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-22 22:47 ` [gentoo-user] " William Kenworthy
2011-11-23 13:01 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-23 15:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-23 15:29 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-23 15:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-22 20:14 ` Felix Kuperjans
2011-11-22 21:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-22 22:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-11-22 23:14 ` Felix Kuperjans
2011-11-22 23:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-11-22 20:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Albert W. Hopkins
2011-11-22 21:14 ` kashani
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