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Quote:

Originally Posted by re_nelson (Post 5073078)

Have you carefully checked the source code for VMware? Oh wait... :)

No. I am not patient enough to dig out where the WMware source code is in this tarball

Code:

$ tar -tf VMware-ws-open-source-1379776.tgz

gettext-0.14.6.tgz

glibmm-2.22.1.tgz

glibmm-2.16.4.tgz

glib-2.16.4.tgz

glib-2.24.2-1.tgz

libglade-2.6.0.tgz

libaio-0.3.106.tgz

gettext-0.17-1.tgz

glibmm-2.22.1-3.tgz

libgcrypt-1.4.3.tgz

gtkmm-2.20.1.tgz

atk-2.3.93.tgz

at-spi2-atk-2.3.91.tgz

glibmm-2.24.0.tgz

pango-1.20.5.tgz

glib-2.22.4-3.tgz

gail-1.22.3.tgz

libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tgz

at-spi-1.22.1.tgz

libgpg-error-1.5.tgz

gtk-engines-2.18.4.tgz

procps-3.2.7-1.tgz

alsa-lib-1.0.13.tgz

cairo-1.10.2.tgz

glib-2.22.4-1.tgz

librsvg-2.16.0.tgz

atk-1.22.0.tgz

cairomm-1.6.0.tgz

gcc-4.4.3-1.tgz

gtk+-2.20.0.tgz

libsigc++-2.2.11.tgz

gksu-2.0.2_1371468.tgz

pango-1.26.0.tgz

ocaml-3.12.1.tgz

libjpeg-turbo-1.1.1.tgz

libiconv-1.9.2.tgz

iconv-1.9.2.tgz

cairomm-1.10.0.tgz

gcc-4.1.2-7.tgz

libbonobo-2.22.0.tgz

zenity-2.30.0.tgz

jansson-2.3.tgz

atk-1.30.0.tgz

libgtop-2.14.9.tgz

gcc-4.1.2-4.tgz

dbus-1.4.16.tgz

startup-notification-0.9.tgz

ocaml-3.11.0.tgz

cairo-1.6.4.tgz

glib-2.22.1-1.tgz

gtkmm-2.12.7.tgz

libfuse-2.5.3.tgz

uriparser-0.7.0-1.tgz

gettext-0.17.tgz

gnome-keyring-2.91.93.tgz

at-spi2-core-2.3.91.tgz

gtk+-2.12.11.tgz

pangomm-2.26.0.tgz

Quote:

Originally Posted by guanx (Post 5073215)

Thanks very much for the tip! It now installs. The problem might be that the installer can't setup the bridged virtual net. My guest system actually cannot connect to anywhere when I choose "bridged networking".

This can be fixed by killing the vmnet-bridge process and re-launch it with the correct "-i" option. I've searched /etc/rc.d/init.d but found vmnet-bridge in nowhere. Any idea how to keep this settings across system restart? Thanks!

I am happy to say I will not spend more time on VMware Player. I did work around the bridged network problem by creating a wrapper script for vmnet-bridge but later I have problems installing VMware tools. The VMware nowadays is not that VMware ten years ago. Using VMware is simply causing me endless troubles and benefiting negligible performance gain.

Qemu or VirtualBox is the solution.

Quote:

Originally Posted by guanx (Post 5073474)

Like you, I have all three virtualization applications. And all of them are running Slackware64-current so that I can compare QEMU, VirtualBox and VMplayer. While there are more CPU flags present with VMplayer such as SSE4.2, benchmarks that I have run reveal that VirtualBox matches VMplayer in every metric that interests me (I don't do games). The flexibility of QEMU is also very appealing to me since I can experiment with different hardware. I do keep VMplayer around on my system but since its hood is welded shut, it doesn't have the hack value of the other two.

JMHO and YMMV.