I had a trial license for vmware workstation. I decided to work just with
vmware player, so I did an emerge -C on workstation, and an emerge
of player.
The install was perfectly smooth, but it doesn't work. The symptoms
were pretty bizarre, so I did a careful by-hand deletion of the files that
the unmerge told me would remove all traces, then I rebooted the
system (there was a module that wouldn't unload).
Then I did an umerge and emerge again. I ran the configurations script.
But, it was schizophrenic about it. Below is what it said at the end of
the configure; you'll see it says the module loads perfectly, then it
says it has been installed correctly, but not configured (but this is while
*running* the configure script. Then it says I can go ahead and run
the player.
It cannot make up its mind, but the end result is nothing works any
more.
Help?
++ kevin
===================== running configure script =========
Building for VMware Player 1.0.x or VMware Workstation 5.5.x.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r7-kosmanor/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r7'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/hub.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/netif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/bridge.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/procfs.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_compat.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x386.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r7'
cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.
* VMware Player is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
* for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the
* following command: /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl.
* VMware is not properly configured! See
above.
[ !! ]
The configuration of VMware Player 1.0.1 build-19317 for Linux for this running
kernel completed successfully.
You can now run VMware Player by invoking the following command:
"/opt/vmware/player/bin/vmplayer".
Enjoy,
--the VMware team
treat init.d # /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmplayer
vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
/opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl.
treat init.d #
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
- [gentoo-user] Ghost of vmware workstation haunts player? Kevin O'Gorman
