[Xastir] Vmware Players latest version

[Tony Hunt]

Hello Lee,

Understand you issues with VMware .. If your willing to give something else 
a go then I for one would be happy to check it out and try it out.. It all 
takes time however. One things for sure given enough time the last versions 
under VMware will become long in the tooth and not such a great advertisment 
for Xastir.

Tony Hunt  VK5AH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Bengston" <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
To: "Tony Hunt" <wavetel at internode.on.net>; "Xastir - APRS client software 
discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Vmware Players latest version


> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Tony Hunt <wavetel at internode.on.net> 
> wrote:
>> Has anyone tried building a VMware version of the latest xastir from CVS 
>> with some of these nice new features ? I have been watching the 
>> developments with Lenny and Lucid packages which is great to see. I 
>> intend to try out some of these in a while.
>>
>> A VmPlayer would be good if anyone is still messing with these ..
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> Last year I quit trying to create any VM's with VMware Server (F/U/W
> VMware Player) - got frustrated with VMware Tools never installing
> properly on new Linux distributions.  Sun (now Oracle) VirtualBox,
> however, has been a breath of fresh air.  I have no problem installing
> the "VboxLinuxAdditions" (VMware Tools equivalent) in most Linux
> distributions.
>
> I haven't created any new VirtualBox VM's for distribution with
> Xastir, however, since last September.  Would there be any interest in
> a new VirtualBox VM with all of Xastir's current goodies?  I have no
> desire to go back to VMware.
>
> Regards,
> Lee - K5DAT
> Murphy, TX
>