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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: VM Player debian for rockboxRe: VM Player debian for rockbox
From: <postmaster_at_diffenbach.org>
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:35:36 -0400 Thanks. I ended up using qemu to build a virtual disk, altered a copy of the rockbox.vmx to point to it, and then installed debian to the virtual disk. This works fine, except that tere are no vmware tools, which are essential for copy/paste from guest to host and for resizeing the host display. So I downloaded the free vmware server beta, and got all I need, including vmware tools. Except one thing: I need to pick a linux distro. Gnome I'm not really fond of (KDE on Knoppix just seemed more user-friendly), In general, I like "complete" systems; when I installed cygwin, I installed /all/ packages, just so they'd be there if I needed them. This paid off, when, for example, I had a telecommuting job using subversion. No asking my boss what subversion was, I just went into cygwin and bingo, it was there. So I want a linux distro that has "everything". To save disk space, I don't really want many graphical apps, I don't need office suites or firefox, -- I'll continue to use windows for that -- but I do want "all" development apps. Playing with debian, I found I had to apt-get gcc and make and the linux headers, and I'd prefer to avoid that. So is there a distro that comes standard with development tools, basically like cygwin, that I can treat as a server and remote X-session to, while running it headless in the vm? And yes, the name Diffenbach is German (and was more German before my Grandad changed it at the start of WWII), but I'm not and unfortunately I don't speak the language. Andreas Gnau wrote: > postmaster_at_diffenbach.org schrieb: >> Can I beg a bigger copy from someone with a legal copy of the VMWare >> workshop? > There was a full version of VMWare 4.5.2 in the German c't Magazin some > time ago. Maybe you can get one via ebay. The only disadvantage is the > hiqh shipping cost. > Unfortunately I lost my CD :-( > > "Diffenbach" sounds German. That's why I wrote this :-P > If you're not from Germany this is not a very good solution. > > Another possibility is QEMU. I use it from time to time and I'm very > content with it. > > > Received on 2006-06-04 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |