I've got gcc 4, but I need gcc 3...

[nmeyers at javalinux.net (nmeyers at javalinux.net)]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:43:20PM -0400, Don Levey wrote:
> Based upon info in the latest (May) issue of Linux Journal, I thought I'd
> finally get off my butt and experiment with QEMU.  The idea of having a
> virtual platform is appealing for all sorts of reasons (testing, living
> dangerously, etc), but I don't want to pay for VMware.

You don't have to pay for VMWare. The VMWare Player is free (but not
Free), and there's guidance online for configuring and installing your own
VMWare disk images without having to use VMWare Workstation. Interestingly
enough, you can use QEMU to create the initial empty VMWare disk image
on which to do an install.

FYI, I'm using VMWare player, with a Windows XP guest installation, very
successfully under Gentoo.

Nathan


> Anyway, my machine
> (Fedora Core 4) has gcc 4 installed, but QEMU will only compile with 3.x.
> I'm not able to install a 3.4 RPM without untangling dependency hell, and
> don't know enough to know if compiling from 3.4 source will mess any of
> these things up.
> 
> I know that I could fire up a virtual machine, amke sure I've got 3.4
> installed there, and go forward, but in order to do that I need to get the
> virtual machine installed...
> 
> Any suggestions?
>  -Don
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