On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 01:12:13AM -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. > > -- > Valmor >
Hi Valmor, I am presently running gentoo as a VM(virtualbox) on macos seirra. I have app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.0.32:0 and x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.0.32:0 installed and running. I didn't face any problems while compiling/installing the package. Could you specify the issues you faced while installing/upgrading virtualbox-guest-additions package. I have used VMware Fusion barely so I don't have enough experience to comment on the overall quality it delivers or packages pertaining to it in portage. Regards, Naveen
