DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: VMware Tools

koikoi: you'd probably need to compile them yourself

Quote (curaga @ May 25 2008,07:14)

what's wrong with Qemu? It's a damn fine virtual machine, and I believe the binaries from their site should work just fine on DSL.

I'm sure many would agree that vmware is the standard. You'd have to use their products first I guess :P

Using other vm solutions that also utilize qemu work pretty well should you not need all of vmware's features - virtualbox comes to mind. I haven't looked at the performance differences between the latest vm solutions though.

Well, I probably am biased, having only used Qemu and Bochs, but to me the biggest advantage of Qemu is that you got an instant VM; not that you need to launch a config app, create a virtual HD, create a VM with specifics, fiddle with this button and that option selection. I prefer just instant qemu -cdrom myiso.iso.

Quote (curaga @ May 25 2008,02:14)

what's wrong with Qemu? It's a damn fine virtual machine, and I believe the binaries from their site should work just fine on DSL.

Nothing wrong with Qemu, I'm just biased towards VMware (disclaimer: employee). AFAIK, though (and I may easily be wrong), Qemu only has rudimentary guest tools support, which is what I'm asking about - I want DSL as the guest, not as the host. I don't want to go off topic too much, but Fusion makes it pretty painless to create a new virtual machine.

Quote (chaostic @ May 25 2008,02:50)

If df is a problem, are you using the busybox df, or do you have the gnu-utils.dsl installed or loaded?

Whatever's the default. I didn't know it was busybox - that would explain it.

Sounds like the answer is that there's no easy way. Time to go poke at compiling Tools, I guess...

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