From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:57:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j7ouq2$di5$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFnZeoRst5eAsYZRq8Sf5_Wr8A0dHdBzmj_TQ74XU_-ffO4DVA@mail.gmail.com>
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".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-20 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 22:22 [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-19 21:05 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-19 21:14 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-20 9:53 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-20 9:56 ` Andrey Moshbear
2011-10-20 10:57 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-10-20 12:27 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-20 13:00 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-20 13:28 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-20 16:47 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-20 22:13 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-24 22:12 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-25 5:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-25 11:15 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-25 17:08 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-01 11:18 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-01 11:13 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-01 12:12 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-11-01 19:16 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-03 21:18 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-04 4:32 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-11-04 8:20 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
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