On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:53 AM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly. >>> >>> I've tried vmware-workstation 6.5.0 and 6.5.1. Either one crashes when >>> clicking the "Create a new virtual machine" button. It gives no error >>> nothing it just quits the program. >>> The user is in the vmware group. Everything seems to work fine except >>> "Create a new virtual machine" button. >>> >>> Any suggestion how can i get any debug output or something. >>> >>> >> >> If you run it from a terminal does it show any output there when it crashes? >> >> > Nothing no error not even any kind of message. > >
vmware is a wrapper script, maybe it's hiding some messages. Try to run the actual executable. On my system it is located in: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin
