Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/30/06 06:51: > I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm > momentarily glad I didn't pay for this thing. It seems to expect > a RedHat style runlevel system. > Has anybody successfully fooled with this thing to make it work on Gentoo?
> At the moment, its problems seem to be related to the daemon management > features. I could clone them, but it would be a lot of work. The 5.5.1.19175-r3 ebuild runs perfectly here, give it a go. You *must* run vmware-config.pl as root after the install. If vmware-config.pl complains about being unable to shutdown the vmware services, rerun it using the -skipstopstart switch. rc-update add vmware default will fix your redhat runlevel problems. Make sure that the userid you're going to run vmware under is a member of the vmware group. Hope this helps. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
