Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm > momentarily glad > I didn't pay for this thing. It seems to expect a RedHat style > runlevel system. > Has anybody successfully fooled with this thing to make it work on Gentoo? > > At the moment, its problems seem to be related to the daemon management > features. I could clone them, but it would be a lot of work. > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD It looks like there is an ebuild.
However, I use VMWare workstation 4.x. All it really needs is /etc/rc.[0-6] directories and a symlink. Try the ebuild or just do what I did: cd /etc mkdir rc.d for i in $(seq 0 6); do echo mkdir rc${i}.d; done ln -sf ../init.d After that you should be able to run the installer. The installer will place a file named vmware in /etc/init.d/. I just run that file before I want to start VMWare. All the startup script does is bring up the virtual network that vmware uses. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list