Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am writing this from Gentoo running in VMware workstation on Windows > Server 2003. It works just fine, just install it like a normal install > except you need to use lspci to find what hardware vmware is showing > Gentoo, and compile accordingly. I have had problems installing the vmware > tools in Gentoo though, they will install but will not run.
Well, that's encouraging... thanks. Let me ask a few more things please. Sorry about the verbosity level but I'm kind of confused about how to go at this. My vmware installs were perforumed on a laptop running a P4 3.2 gh. That was due to being on the road at the time. My main desktop machine has been a gentoo box for some time now, an older p4 with a now meager, 2ghz, but the box gave up the ghost a few weeks ago. I commandered an athlon64 3400+ that was running winxp and being used to crunch video transforamtions from one kind of output to another and other intensive chores like running adobe photoshop or especially adobe After Effects which is really cpu and ram hungry. I just highhandedly moved all that to 2 other winxp machines both p4 3.2ghz that also process and edit video or related graphics, and am using it for gentoo. As time has worn on I'm seeing the result of using such a powerhouse for an OS that doesn't need it. I'm missing the ability to pass intensive (video related) tasks to the athlon such as basic video editing while doing the effects on one of the other winxp boxes all across a gigabit lan. Or vice versa. Linux (no judgement here) simply does not offer the applications that can hold a candle to adobe products. So I don't need all that horsepower for gentoo or any other linux, and am now missing the firepower of the athlon64 for video work. So I'm thinking I could solve this problem by reinstalling winxp and putting gentoo in a vmware. (or getting another machine entirely, used and cheap for linux) I think I'm liking the first of those since it would be applicable to any powerfull machine in any circumstance, given a powerfull machine and lots of space. But I recall not being able to get gentoo installed in a vmware setup. I don't recall why now. I'll probably eventually follow the second course too when I run into somethbing being sold cheaply or given away. So cutting to the chase here: Do you think this being an athlon64 will have a bad effect on gentoo install or will it install as on any other machine and maybe even allow me to use the 64bit version if I felt adventurous? Do you think running gentoo as a main desktop as I have been when it owned the machine, doing all mail and most web related stuff like keeping a site up or just browsing, running most backup related stuff with rsync etc etc will work out in a vmware setting? Considering some rsyncing can be pretty labor intensive or compiling something like a kernel or emacs will this just bog down other work the athlon may be doing? The athlon is an athlon64 3400+ at 2.2ghz (socket 754). It is about the equivalent of a p4 at 3.2ghz in my experience. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
