http://briancarper.net/tag/208/kvmSome guy's blog about programming and Linux and cows.http://briancarper.net/blog/gentoo-vmware-failhttp://briancarper.net/blog/gentoo-vmware-failTue, 31 Mar 2009 00:59:55 -0700<p>According to <a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260979">this bug</a>, VMWare on Gentoo is in a sorry state, with one lone person trying to keep it going. I can't get <code>vmware-modules</code> to compile on my system no matter what I try, which is depressing. Kudos to all of our one-man army Gentoo devs who are keeping various parts of the distro going, but I wonder how many other areas of Gentoo are largely unmaintained nowadays.</p> <p>KVM was braindead simple to get set up in comparison with VMWare, but I can't get networking to work. This is because I'm an idiot when it comes to TUN/TAP and iptables. I've read wiki articles that suggest setting up my system to NAT-forward traffic into the VM but I couldn't get that working and don't have a lot of time to screw with it.</p> <p>On one of the Gentoo mailing lists I noticed that a dev has posted some <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg33099.html">KVM images of Gentoo</a> suitable for testing. But I'm looking to start up an image from scratch and that doesn't help, and it's not going to help me get networking going any easier.</p> <p>Why do I feel like this'd take 10 minutes to set up on Ubuntu? Look at <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware">this</a>, or search for "<code>ubuntu vmware</code>" and see the hundreds of results. Given that it's a VM and it doesn't really matter what the host OS is anyways, I'll probably do that on my laptop, but it's still depressing.</p>