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br14n
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 Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 10:42 pm Post subject: X in vmware gentoo |
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| Sorry, it's not gentoo-specific, but I'm having trouble getting X working in my gentoo-vmware-gentoo setup (vmware is running under gentoo -- running pseudo-gentoo). Is there some standard strange XF86Config that'll make stuff work? |
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lotas
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| Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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there is a driver for linux, on Vmware. if you click the settings/vmware tools install, it will put a virtual CD into the drive of your VM and there is help there someware too for how to install the driver and stuff. havent played with gentoo under vmware, only vmware on gentoo. Id think that compiling would be slower under vmware? Am i right? i know that windows acta a lot slower under vmware then when its running as a main OS. I use windows for web development (dreamweaver), P2P file sharing (Kazaa) and software development (Visual Basic). Thats the only reason i use win2k on vmware. Tell me if this works. and your thoughs on the speed. Im on an athlon 1gz, 384mb ram of which 128 for win2k, 30gb hdd of which 4 gb for win2k.
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br14n
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Ah, okay. I didn't know how vmware tools worked; I guess I need to start the vmware tools install and then mount the cdrom or something to see the driver goodies.
I'm pretty sure compiling will be considerably slower under vmware than native, but fortunately it's possible to just install from the stage3 cd. Emulating and so forth, I'm not sure how much difference it would make to compile gentoo in vmware with optimizations and all that.
Thanks for the info. |
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lotas
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well i found vmware to be about 5 - 10% slower on gentoo then other Linux boxes. Thats something to do with RTC i think. vmware is still good though 
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