VMware

This article covers Article description::installing Gentoo as a guest OS inside an emulated VMware environment, covering the installation of open-vm-tools inside the guest, for improved management and user interactions.

VMware, Inc. sells a variety of closed-source hypervisors. "VMware" can refer to both the company or its products.

Installation
When installing VMware Workstation on Gentoo you need to download the bundle from VMware's website.

Required kernel options
To install and run VMware Workstation on Gentoo you need to enable these kernel options.

Kernel Configuration
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

Emerge
Install :

vmware-tools service
Start the service:

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