Re: [gentoo-user] vmware - help

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote:
 Hi all, looking for some serious vmware debugging help!  I've had
 vmware-workstation working for ages, but sometime this year (ok I use it
 sporadically!) it's stopped.  I don't know if its the old GTK issue or
 what.  No google searches has found anything similar, although I've
 tried a lot of suggestions I found anyway.  Most recently I've
 recompiled the kernel, modules and workstation.

 I currently using workstation 6.5.4.246459 with tuxonice sources 2.6.35
 and modules 1.0.0.25-r1
SNIP

If you have working VMWare images then you might (in the short term -
until you solve this problem) get the VMWare Player and use it to run
what you need right now.

I found that once I had set up a few Windows images I didn't need
Workstation anymore. True, it has some nice features, but I wasn't
using them.

I use the Pentoo overlay for my copy of the Player. I'm sure it's
available elsewhere.

Cheers,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware - help

[Adam Carter]

My principle for using vmware on Gentoo is; use the latest vmware, do not
use the latest kernel.

I'm using Workstation 7.1.2, which works well with 2.6.34, also works with
2.6.35 (but wants to rebuild one kernel module every time it runs, which I
havent tried to fix).

[gentoo-user] vmware - help

[Iain Buchanan]

Hi all, looking for some serious vmware debugging help!  I've had
vmware-workstation working for ages, but sometime this year (ok I use it
sporadically!) it's stopped.  I don't know if its the old GTK issue or
what.  No google searches has found anything similar, although I've
tried a lot of suggestions I found anyway.  Most recently I've
recompiled the kernel, modules and workstation.

I currently using workstation 6.5.4.246459 with tuxonice sources 2.6.35
and modules 1.0.0.25-r1

This is what happens if I run with the shipped_gtk option:

$ VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmware
Logging to /tmp/vmware-iain/setup-14963.log
/usr/share/themes/Unity/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:67: error: unexpected identifier
`colorize_scrollbar', expected character `}'
/opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware: line 31: 14963 Segmentation fault
$BINDIR/vmware-modconfig --appname=VMware Workstation
--icon=vmware-workstation

I think the gtkrc error is a red herring, but I'm willing to try any
theme engine and theme you suggest :)

and the force option:

$ vmware
Logging to /tmp/vmware-iain/setup-15540.log
filename:   /lib/modules/2.6.35-tuxonice/misc/vmmon.ko
supported:  external
license:GPL v2
description:VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic:   2.6.35-tuxonice SMP preempt mod_unload CORE2 4KSTACKS 
filename:   /lib/modules/2.6.35-tuxonice/misc/vmnet.ko
supported:  external
license:GPL v2
description:VMware Virtual Networking Driver.
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic:   2.6.35-tuxonice SMP preempt mod_unload CORE2 4KSTACKS 
filename:   /lib/modules/2.6.35-tuxonice/misc/vmblock.ko
supported:  external
version:1.1.2.0
license:GPL v2
description:VMware Blocking File System
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: AD9C87216C830F9C343F8E3
depends:
vermagic:   2.6.35-tuxonice SMP preempt mod_unload CORE2 4KSTACKS 
parm:   root:The directory the file system redirects to. (charp)
filename:   /lib/modules/2.6.35-tuxonice/misc/vmci.ko
supported:  external
supported:  external
license:GPL v2
description:VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI).
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic:   2.6.35-tuxonice SMP preempt mod_unload CORE2 4KSTACKS 
filename:   /lib/modules/2.6.35-tuxonice/misc/vsock.ko
supported:  external
license:GPL v2
version:1.0.0.0
description:VMware Virtual Socket Family
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: 5930B98648580F723B86142
depends:vmci
vermagic:   2.6.35-tuxonice SMP preempt mod_unload CORE2 4KSTACKS 
filename:   /lib/modules/2.6.35-tuxonice/misc/vmmon.ko
supported:  external
license:GPL v2
description:VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic:   2.6.35-tuxonice SMP preempt mod_unload CORE2 4KSTACKS 
*** glibc detected *** /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware:
malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0959b1a0 ***
=== Backtrace: =
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x6ba71)[0xb4d1aa71]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x6e88b)[0xb4d1d88b]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_calloc+0xab)[0xb4d1ec1b]
//usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.1(+0x82fa8)[0xb4b67fa8]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_hash_table_new_full+0x87)[0xb72b9d87]
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0(+0x44bd45)[0xb55efd45]
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0(Poll_InitWithImpl+0x1d)[0xb5e6600d]
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0(Poll_InitGtk+0x20)[0xb55ef7d0]
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware(_ZN3lui13ManageableDlgD0Ev
+0x33b)[0x80aa967]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0xb4cc5cc6]
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware(_ZN3Gtk9TreeModelD1Ev
+0x75)[0x80aa7d1]
=== Memory map: 
08048000-083d2000 r-xp  08:07
5509263/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
083d2000-083d6000 rw-p 0038a000 08:07
5509263/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
083d6000-083da000 rw-p  00:00 0 
09573000-095b5000 rw-p  00:00 0  [heap]
b300-b3021000 rw-p  00:00 0 
b3021000-b310 ---p  00:00 0 
b31d9000-b31dd000 rw-p  00:00 0 
b31dd000-b3302000 r-xp  08:07
4080101
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
b3302000-b3317000 rw-p 00125000 08:07
4080101
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
b3317000-b331b000 rw-p  00:00 0 
b331b000-b335b000 r-xp  08:07
4342037
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8/libssl.so.0.9.8
b335b000-b335f000 rw-p 0003f000 08:07
4342037
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8/libssl.so.0.9.8
b335f000-b336f000 r-xp  08:07 5228442/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.6
b336f000-b337 r--p f000 08:07 5228442