| Running vmware 6.0 on gentoo amd64 |
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| Written by Randy Carver |
| Friday, 19 October 2007 10:49 |
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One of the projects I'm involved in at work is using... windows <gasp>. Actually its a Service Tag implementation for windows to allow datacenters to inventory and manage their assets. So, I've got a windows install on my development box now. But I'm not really happy with multi boot (two flavors of gentoo, occasionally ubuntu, and 3 flavors of windows). So I'm evaluating vmware 6 on my gentoo box. The install went fairly painlessly, except for problems with switching to full screen (I run a triple head box). So here's what I did: First off, as of this writing it is still unstable, so you'll have to add a couple of things to your package.keywords file. After that it seemed to work well, but when I tried to switch it to full screen I got the following error: undefined symbol: ViewAutoDrawer_SetOffset A quick google search showed that the problem is in the x11-libs/libview package and it was fixed in a 0.6.0 version. only 0.5.6-rc1 was in portage, so I checked overlays.gentoo.org, and sure 'nuff there's 0.6.0. So layman -a vmware. Stop the vmware services (and client), emerge -pv libview to check, and then emerge it for realy and I'm in business. I can add all three screens in full screen vmware mode :) Technorati Tags: vmware triple head gentoo |
| Last Updated on Friday, 19 October 2007 16:54 |