Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
C M Reinehr wrote:
> On Fri 24 July 2009 12:45:18 pm James Brown wrote:
>
>> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:10:49PM +0400, James Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> I intend to install on my laptop under Debian Lenny AMD 64 the VM Ware
>>>> Player 2.5.2 from http://www.vmware.com/download/player/download.html
>>>> (becouse there is no VMWare Player in the official repositories of the
>>>> Debian).
>>>> Which of the packege do I need - rpm or bundle? How do install it on
>>>> Debian? And what of libraries and etc. do I need install for succesfull
>>>> using VMWare Player?
>>>>
>>> You do not want the rpm.
>>>
>>> I don't like the current bundles either. I keep nagging vmware to
>>> provide the tar files that worked with make-vmpkg again, but they are too
>>> clueless to understand why real admins won't run GUI installer crap in X
>>> as root on their systems rather than something the package manager can
>>> deal with.
>>>
>>> Fortunately we now have kvm (on machines with virtualization hardware
>>> support) which is in my opinion much better than vmware, free, open
>>> source, and maintained and part of stock kernels. I have no need for
>>> vmware anymore.
>>>
>> Could the kvm boot the Windows from physical disk? (I want to make the
>> virtual machine boot my old Windows from my laptop becouse some
>> programes from my working space don't want to run under Linux).
>> Earlier I tried the Virtualbox but it cannot do it and the Virtualbox
>> from the Debian's repositories don't maintain USB.
>>
>
> James,
>
> Download VirtualBox from the Sun repository, rather than the Debian
> repository. You'll get a more current version and USB will work:
>
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
>
> There are some features of VB that are not available in the open source
> edition (ose) available from a Debian repository which are available in the
> version from Sun.
>
> HTH
>
> cmr
>
>
I did this installation but now I have something strange: when I gave
command "virtualbox" the bash answered me that this command didn't found.
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