Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/17/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:As things stand, I can start my virtual machine (the current one runsMinix) only as root. I can start vmware as a user, but any attempt to start my VM brings up a message about it not being able to

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-18 Thread Jim Hatfield
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: When I run as root, things seem better, but it complains that it was unable to extablish an IP number for the simulated ethernet card (networking is set up for NAT). I had lots of problems initially with running the perl script which configures the network, but eventually

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/18/06, Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still having timer problems, vmware complains on startup about /dev/rtc not being available (though it is, and the module is compiled into the kernel). Do you get a message in /var/log/messages like this? May 17 00:41:54 carcharias

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-18 Thread Martin Larsson
On 5/18/06, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the result of me running the config script: Thanks for this log. It's very useful. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r6/build/include] But this gives me

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-17 Thread daniel
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:11, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have a 30-day license to evaluate this beast, and it is not going well. I blame my own inexperience, not VMware, but it's still frustrating. As things stand, I can start my virtual machine (the current one runs Minix) only as root. I

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As things stand, I can start my virtual machine (the current one runs Minix) only as root. I can start vmware as a user, but any attempt to start my VM brings up a message about it not being able to connect to its peer (whatever that is),