Category: VMware


  • Slackware Virtual Machine About Slackware The Official Release of Slackware Linux by Patrick Volkerding is an advanced Linux operating system, designed with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities. Including the latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing simplicity and ease of use alongside flexibility and power,…

  • Here is a another VM, this time its a Xen Gentoo VM running inside a VMware Gentoo VM, how about that 😉 VMware Base Gentoo Linux Configuration Distribution: 2006.0 Linux Kernel: 2.6-15-r1 Installation Type: Desktop (KDE) Networking: DHCP User Name/password – none Root Password: “optdlvrs” Gentoo Xen VM inside the Base Gentoo Linux Configuration Distribution:…

  • 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  • Hi, Some versions of the VMware Server and Workstation 5.5.X has a newer version of the tools.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…