On Wed, 08 Feb 2017 01:12:13 -0500,
Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I would appreciate inputs on emulation of Gentoo on a Mac OSX.
>
> For many years I have been using VirtualBox on the Mac as a host and a
> Gentoo guest. It seems it is becoming difficult to get the
> virtualbox-guest-additions package to compile and install on the
> Gentoo guest. I don't know whether this is a difficulty coming from
> the virtualbox package itself. However, I am considering an emulation
> alternative such as VMWare Fusion to avoid problems with portage
> updates. I wonder whether the experience with the packages that need
> to be installed on the Gentoo guest side for VMWare are less
> problematic than the corresponding virtualbox packages.
>
> Thank you.
I have it working fine under vmware fusion and I have updated since
the install. I don't ust X on that box, so you may have a different
result.
The only gotcha I had was that vmware would not install the tools, but
I found the iso image and mounted it and did it myself.
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