HOWTO - Gentoo on VMWare server

VMWare has been doing a great job in PC virtualization. I've been using VMWare as a test bed for attempting new configurations in Gentoo.

Many have worked on the Gentoo installation since I did my installation around May of 2006. It was a significant amount of work gleening thru the various different VMWare articles in the gentoo Wiki to understand it. Quite possibly I don't yet, but it works day in and day out, so it is a 'close enough'. I am writing this up months after the facts, so I might be a little fuzzy on the details, so don't let me distract you.

Googling on it today Oct. 8, 2006 reveals this, I might try that if I were ready to try again.
HOWTO Install VMWare Server - Gentoo Linux Wiki

The primary article I used in May 2006:
HOWTO Install Gentoo on VMware in Windows NT/2K/XP

Key recollections:
- Download Gentoo ISO
- boot from CD in the VMWare machine
- Recompile Kernel (to get the Network/Disk details all worked out)
- Install X Windows
- Install VMWare tools (this was the most work as I recall -- hopefully is has been cleaned up a little more)

As for a 'Should I run gentoo in VMWare'? I would say for sure! Once you are there it is highly useful. At work (a Windows development environment) if I want to use some UNIX tools, I can start up this tiny little VM (relative to my windows) that has a 6GB disk and 256 MB of RAM and it runs just fine, even starting up X Windows and then Eclipse.