On Fri 24 July 2009 02:45:31 pm James Brown wrote: > C M Reinehr wrote: > > On Fri 24 July 2009 12:45:18 pm James Brown wrote: > >> Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:10:49PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >>>> I intend to install on my laptop under Debian Lenny AMD 64 the VM > >>>> Ware Player 2.5.2 from > >>>> http://www.vmware.com/download/player/download.html (becouse there is > >>>> no VMWare Player in the official repositories of the Debian). > >>>> Which of the packege do I need - rpm or bundle? How do install it on > >>>> Debian? And what of libraries and etc. do I need install for > >>>> succesfull using VMWare Player? > >>> > >>> You do not want the rpm. > >>> > >>> I don't like the current bundles either. I keep nagging vmware to > >>> provide the tar files that worked with make-vmpkg again, but they are > >>> too clueless to understand why real admins won't run GUI installer crap > >>> in X as root on their systems rather than something the package manager > >>> can deal with. > >>> > >>> Fortunately we now have kvm (on machines with virtualization hardware > >>> support) which is in my opinion much better than vmware, free, open > >>> source, and maintained and part of stock kernels. I have no need for > >>> vmware anymore. > >> > >> Could the kvm boot the Windows from physical disk? (I want to make the > >> virtual machine boot my old Windows from my laptop becouse some > >> programes from my working space don't want to run under Linux). > >> Earlier I tried the Virtualbox but it cannot do it and the Virtualbox > >> from the Debian's repositories don't maintain USB. > > > > James, > > > > Download VirtualBox from the Sun repository, rather than the Debian > > repository. You'll get a more current version and USB will work: > > > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads > > > > There are some features of VB that are not available in the open source > > edition (ose) available from a Debian repository which are available in > > the version from Sun. > > > > HTH > > > > cmr > > I did this installation but now I have something strange: when I gave > command "virtualbox" the bash answered me that this command didn't found.
The binary is VirtualBox (/usr/bin/VirtualBox) -- mind the capitalization. cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 -------- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
