Re: status of vmware

[David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>]

David Wood wrote:

> Wait, how does this work? I thought it required kernel modules, built 
> against the running (64-bit) kernel, which is the point of the any-any 
> patches...

That's how I made it work. I haven't used it a lot, but I haven't had 
problems either. WinXP installed on Debian sid pure64. Incidentally, you 
may want to
try the free beta-version of WinXP-64bit, which seems to run better on 
amd64 hardware. I haven't tried it in vmware but would expect it to work.

Dave

> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Nor wrote:
>
> > I'm running it but not in pure 64.
> >
> > I've installed under /32-bit/ a debian distribution for 32 bits, and
> > this /etc/ld.so.conf and runs fine, but when I update glibc is nedded to
> > remove references to /32-bits/ libraries in /etc/ld.so.conf
> >
> > xx@xxx:~$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
> > /usr/X11R6/lib
> > # chroot i386 system libs
> > /32-bits/lib
> > /32-bits/usr/lib
> > /32-bits/usr/X11R6/lib
> > /32-bits/usr/local/lib
> >
> >
> > If you are interested, also i also execute wine under /32-bits/ chrooted
> >
> >
> >
> > El Viernes, 14 de Enero de 2005 22:10, kristian kvilekval escribió:
> >
> > > Could someone update what is the status of vmware
> > > running on debian amd64.  Unfortunately I may
> > > need to install windows and would rather stick
> > > it in vmware than run it natively.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > kris