Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.10.2011 18:47, schrieb Mark Knecht: >> Gentoo hosts run KVM, in there virtual Windows-machines for various >> specific software they need. >> >> Stable so far. > > Good to know. Maybe I'll give it a try. reply 2, new thoughts (perspective: running *one* Windows-XP-VM on a desktop-machine,

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.10.2011 18:47, schrieb Mark Knecht: > The following is more for my own to do list. Feel free to respond if > you know of a good Gentoo oriented web page for using KVM. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KVM ? > - I believe I've read that somehow I can convert my VMware Player > image to somet

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 20.10.2011 15:00, schrieb Mark Knecht: > >> I've wanted to try out the Linux KVM stuff but watching the >> development list gave me the feeling it wasn't stable enough to depend >> on day to day. > > I have that stuff out at custome

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.10.2011 15:00, schrieb Mark Knecht: > I've wanted to try out the Linux KVM stuff but watching the > development list gave me the feeling it wasn't stable enough to depend > on day to day. I have that stuff out at customers. Gentoo hosts run KVM, in there virtual Windows-machines for variou

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 20.10.2011 11:56, schrieb Andrey Moshbear: > >>> I stay w/ vmware-player-3.1.5 for now (out of vmware-overlay). > >> I've had rather pleasant experiences with virtualbox. Less >> libhell/libnazism, too. >> Plus, less drivers to modp

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.10.2011 11:56, schrieb Andrey Moshbear: >> I stay w/ vmware-player-3.1.5 for now (out of vmware-overlay). > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 05:53, Stefan G. Weichinger 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
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' a

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 14.10.2011 00:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >> Anyone hitting the same issue? >> >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6824432.html?sid=ff31450ec4a661979b3545e662bdfbb1 >> >>  AFAI understand glibc-2.13-r4 (as in ~amd64 rig

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 14.10.2011 00:22, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Anyone hitting the same issue? > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6824432.html?sid=ff31450ec4a661979b3545e662bdfbb1 > > AFAI understand glibc-2.13-r4 (as in ~amd64 right now) is too new > for the vmware-binary? > > Did I understand co

[gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Anyone hitting the same issue? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6824432.html?sid=ff31450ec4a661979b3545e662bdfbb1 AFAI understand glibc-2.13-r4 (as in ~amd64 right now) is too new for the vmware-binary? Did I understand correctly? Is there a workaround? Downgrading glibc is not the way to