On Sunday 04 December 2005 16:16, Nuitari wrote: > > Hi, I have tried to start vmware and I get > > 'failed to start unable to connect to peer process. > > I have purchased vm previously but this still happens with my serial. > > Do I need this and can anyone help? > > Gavin. > > It can be 2 things > Either /dev/vmmon is missing or you do not have permissions for it. > You have to add your user to the vmware group and login / logout to have > access to it. > > If it is missing you need to do: > mknod vmmon c 10 165 > > On my system I do a udevstart after all modules are loaded to be sure I'm > not missing any /dev files. Does anyone know if there is a better way ?
On my system vmmon and vmnetx get created when the modules are loaded - I am using udev. -- theboywho [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] mailing list
