how to install vmware workstation

[Chris Cohen]

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 16:21:12 Clayton wrote:
>
> I haven't used Gentoo in a long time... did Gentoo provide VMWare as
> part of the emerge thing?  How could they do that since VMWare is a
> commercial and proprietary package?

I am not totally sure, but afair Gentoo's emerge downloaded the vmware 
tgz file (or I had to fetch it manually and place it in the DISTFILE 
dir), extracted it, applied some patches and the only thing I had to 
run after every vmware update was vmware-config.pl to get it working.

>
> In every Linux distribution I've installed VMWare in, I have been
> able to install the prepackaged binary (deb, rpm etc) from VMWare
> ONLY if it was a contemporary release... eg I could install the
> VMWare RPMs (in an RPM based Linux) if the Kernel version matched up
> as VMWare expected... otherwise it has always been an install via the
> shell script.  This is definitely the case with Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.04
> where the kernel is far beyond what is supported for VMWare
> Workstation 6.0.2 (last stable release that I know of).  I don't know
> what the VMWare 6.5 Beta is like to install.
>
> >  I would really like to switch to VirtualBox. But as far as I know,
> >  VirtualBox doesn't support 64-Bit guests now which is a "must
> > have" for me.
>
> It only is tagged as "Planned"  eg:
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VBox_vs_Others
> I have a feeling that with Sun backing them now there might be
> pressure to bring that from Planned to Implemented fairly soon... we
> can hope.

Good to hear. I don't plan to buy the next release of vmware...

-- 
Greetings
Chris