DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Install VMware in DSL



Does anyone try to install VMware into DSL?
I'm trying to!
I figure that DSL should make a ideal host for VMware workstation, so as to leave maximum resources availible for the VM's that run on top.
BUT - having compiler problems. The vmware install script, vmware-config.pl needs lots of things:
GCC, make, kernel source, etc
I downloaded most every DSL extension I could find, but I cannot get the compiler to work.
Tried TCC. says sorry, must compile tcc first with GCC.
Got latest GCC. wont compile, it needs an earlier GCC first.
got gcc1.dsl and no go there as the gcc version doees not match the kernel.
any "make" I try says it cannot find a rule.
ARRRGH!
How on earth to the DSL maintainers compile thiers????
I don't have broadband, my dsl isn't connected so this makes
apt-get impossible.
Anybody else have a solution?
I am running DSL on the new VMware server that they are giving away & on VMware Workstation, but to run the VMware server/workstation on dsl will be a challenge.

I will see what I can do, it will probably raise more questions then answers.   :)
I now have installed VMware server on to DSL as a host OS. It is installed completely, however configuring it is proving to be difficult.

The problem is, that the configuration complains after installing the gcc1.dsl that the kernel is configured with version 2.95.4 and that the gcc is currently version 3.3.4. Does anyone know where to get the older gcc from, google searches find 2.95.3 but not 2.95.4?
Thanks
Yes I saw the GCC release issue too. Please check the GCC prerequisites - I found  
that that you needed an earlier GCC to compile the one you want!

Well, I've voted with my wallet - donated $30 to DSL... here's hoping that
John will give us a hand if he picks this issue up.

I now think that compiling a DSL app on DSL is not practical. Do you know what
version of Knoppix or Debian is used to create DSL and what libraries are used?
Especially what John Roberts uses - that should make the VMWare compile easier.
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