On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Iain Buchanan <iai...@netspace.net.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just upgraded from vmware-workstation vmware-workstation-6.0.5.109488 > to vmware-workstation-6.5.1.126130 as I'm upgrading kernels, modules, > etc, and the old faithful 6.0.5 version has been hard masked... > > I get the usual: > > VMware Workstation Error: > VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) > configured for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system > administrator must find and run "vmware-config.pl". For more > information, please see the VMware Workstation documentation. > > > But for the life of me I can't find vmware-config.pl. slocate returns > nothing. Google isn't helpful either. The emerge log mentioned `emerge > --config vmware-workstation` which output this: > > Configuring pkg... > > Network settings database seems to be invalid,configuring default > settings > Configuring Bridged network vmnet0 > Configuring hostonly network vmnet1, probing for unused subnet ... > Configuring NAT network vmnet8, probing for unused subnet ... > Configured default networks - Bridged, Hostonly, NAT > > But vmware still complains about vmware-config.pl > > Any ideas?
I think emerge --config is the "gentoo way". It runs /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-networks Here's the snippet from the ebuild: pkg_config() { ${VM_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/vmware-networks --postinstall ${PN},old,new }