I have successfully installed VMWare Workstation 7.X on Debian 6 without any issues. You need to install as root and then make sure that the user has r/w access tot he directory where you place you VM image files.
Shaffin. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius <[email protected]> wrote: > on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden ([email protected]) wrote: >> >> >> On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> >> > Why would one chose one over the other? >> >> OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. > > Well, yeah, besides the obvious I meant. > > I've schlepped over the *.vmwarevm trees from my OSX box (primary use: > serving as a VMWare Fusion platform) and will muck with getting them > going on VBox. > > There's ye olde "Oh, but I selected SCSI for hard drive format" issue, I > suspect that's not a big issue, though I also suspect that WinXP will > make it one. Grumble. And largely OT. > > -- > Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | > Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist | When you seek unlimited power > Krell Power Systems Unlimited | Go to Krell! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
