[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-18 Thread Remy Blank
Richard Fish wrote: > Just two more tipsfor 1920x1200 resolution, you will need to add: > > svga.maxWidth = 1920 > > to the .vmx file for your virtual machine. Otherwise it maxes out at > 1600x1200. > > Also I recommend using the Gentoo ebuild, rather than downloading > directly from vmware

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That certainly sounds faster than what I see in qemu. I guess I'll give VMWare a try and see how it compares. Just two more tipsfor 1920x1200 resolution, you will need to add: svga.maxWidth = 1920 to the .vmx file for your virtual machine.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-17 Thread Remy Blank
Richard Fish wrote: > But yes, I run 1920x1200 on my laptop, and VMWare is easily capable of > that resolution. It also runs quite fast at least for 2d operations. > VMWare installs a custom, accelerated graphics driver for windows > guests, and I am estimating it makes the graphics run at maybe 5

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/16/06, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: certainly gave qemu a nice speed boost. What's more annoying at the moment is the slow graphics emulation, and the fact that I cannot emulate my full screen (1920x1200) in qemu. Is VMWare able to do that, and how fast is the graphics emulation?

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-17 Thread Remy Blank
Richard Fish wrote: > But the CPU is mostly native. (...) > This is what makes VMWare so much faster > than something that actually does emulate a processor like qemu. Just a quick note: using kqemu-1.3-pre5, qemu also executes both user and kernel code natively, and should therefore achieve about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/16/06, James Ausmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nope - VMWare doesn't give the guest OS a hardware copy of what the host machine is - it does software emulation of the entire computer - BIOS, CPU, Video Card, Hard Drive (unless you go for RAW access to a specified hard drive), sound, etc etc.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Steven Susbauer
Harry Putnam writes: > 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? It should install as on any other machine. Install an i586 or i686 build I wou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Jason Weisberger
VMWare tools will run just fine if you use the latest Any-Any update for them from the VMWare website.  Just google for it.-- Jason Weisberger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Steven Susbauer
On Tue, 16 May 2006, James Ausmus wrote: > On 16 May 2006 17:56:14 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread James Ausmus
On 16 May 2006 17:56:14 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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?

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
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

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone here is running gentoo inside vmware on winxp > > and if they might coach me on that. > > I usually set it to other linux 2.6 kernel, and done :) Uh excuse the density of my skull but you'd