VMware

VMware can refer to both the company or its product. VMware offers a variety of closed source hypervisors including VMware ESXi and VMware Server.

Installation
This article guides you on installing Gentoo as a guest OS in a VMware environment.

Install

Kernel Settings
When working with VMWare ESXi, despite the Ethernet emulator stating it would be an Intel e1000e, the guest OS was presented with an AMD Ethernet adapter. Both are included for completeness as well as the e1000.

The keywords for the above options are:
 * CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_AMD
 * CONFIG_AMD8111_ETH
 * CONFIG_PCNET32
 * CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_INTEL
 * CONFIG_E1000
 * CONFIG_E1000E
 * CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD
 * CONFIG_VMWARE_BALLOON
 * CONFIG_VMWARE_PVSCSI
 * CONFIG_VMXNET3
 * CONFIG_VMWARE_VMCI
 * CONFIG_VMWARE_VMCI_VSOCKETS
 * CONFIG_FUSE_FS
 * CONFIG_FUSION
 * CONFIG_FUSION_SPI

Finish setup
Start the service:

And, add the vmware-tools service to the default run level.