Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri 24 July 2009 02:45:31 pm James Brown wrote:
> 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.
The binary is VirtualBox (/usr/bin/VirtualBox) -- mind the capitalization.
cmr
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