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 1N0i4r-0007bK-2A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:46:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28A54E08B0; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:46:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 086A8E08B0 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:46:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A657A66F56 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:46:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.17 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.17 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.571, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id B6gHa8KOiy5m for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:45:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51FB267FA5 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:45:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N0i3q-0000fQ-Fo for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:45:34 +0200 Received: from athedsl-390183.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.76.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:45:34 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-390183.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:45:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:45:11 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <53e35fd50910202222t222ca3f5mc9ad7ee30953eca8@mail.gmail.com> <20091021131757.4c01f5cb@dartworks.biz> 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-390183.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091019 Thunderbird/3.0b4 In-Reply-To: <20091021131757.4c01f5cb@dartworks.biz> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 45c681a4-2965-4994-aa22-2a8741ae03ff X-Archives-Hash: 7d7195f67e7d5e72c13a44e2ff6b4233 On 10/21/2009 11:17 PM, Keith Dart wrote: > === On Wed, 10/21, Xi Shen wrote: === >> why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is >> patched by gentoo? > > === > > Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.)