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 1RSwDL-0000Il-VB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:41:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAEB221C097; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457C221C027 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:38:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbbff1 with SMTP id ff1so933422vbb.40 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:38:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=iVcLDIFjeuW/QfNulFvUiJXEbd/25kMQ7wEw+ITe5vE=; b=GLnuvvpEXCFDJStBj228sIPvMJfPrz/CUkOi8OiSEX4yml2l2yo6FfAF7pyCXkOko7 F8GqIAecpgifZkPXo8yHJJl4rvHOAppGrNbW40DFNcRbAV0XojWWnP9vJP1Dw/iCSp3F bXu/NoUbDORJo0gPJrxFuheYXYs+8nHojLpY8= 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 10.182.37.71 with SMTP id w7mr7795776obj.41.1321990738199; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:38:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.149.33 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:38:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm> References: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:38:58 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please. From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 0a5754c6-c7e1-4404-b70c-0df73f79c841 X-Archives-Hash: 541ed8240c9afb8c648b76b96f28c27e On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Alan Mackenzie 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