Author: Jay


  • We have http mirror!!

    Hi All, Thanks to Mark at vr dot org we have a nice fast http download link. Head to gentoo-vm.vr.org for Downloads!! Update: Good news is Mark recently joined VMware :), but the bad news is there is nobody at vr.org to maintain that mirror. So its dead now 🙁 Jay

  • Hi, Some versions of the VMware Server and Workstation 5.5.X has a newer version of the tools. To install vmware tools do the following: This can also be followed if you are doing a fresh install of the vmware tools. Also note that this procedure does not follow the Gentoo way of managing packages. So…

  • Gentoo in a VM

    Gentoo Virtual Machine Gentoo Linux is a Linux distribution named after the Gentoo Penguin. It is designed to be modular, portable, easy to maintain, flexible, and optimized for the user’s machine. This is accomplished by building all tools and utilities from source code, although, for convenience, several large software packages are also available as precompiled…

  • Introduction

    Hi All, This is an attempt to provide the Gentoo user community with a VMware Image to test and get a feel about. This is not a official Release and I’m neither part of or related in any manner with the releng team at Gentoo. Though I do work for VMware, whatever I say or…