I figured it out... along with the vmmon module being built for the
wrong kernel was the vmnet module. Once I built it for the right
kernel, put it into place and ran /etc/init.d/vmware start, it runs
without error.
Sorry for the intrusion. :)
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:21:08PM -0500, Michael George wrote:
I am trying to install vmware-player, but things don't seem to be
working right.
Aftere doing the emerge, and starting /etc/init.d/vmware, I was told
that cupsd had to be started after vmware but that some of the vmware
dependencies required cupsd. Since I don't need to pring from the VM, I
blew that off.
I ran vmware-config.pl and set up the bridged networking. But after
answering the questions, I get:
* Starting VMware services: [ ok ]
* Virtual machine monitor [ ok ]
* Virtual ethernet[ !! ]
* Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ !! ]
(on my first attempt I configured the bridged and NAT networking, but
I've re-run vmware-config.pl since then).
When I ran vmplayer, I was told that it wasn't configured as
/etc/vmware/not_configured was still in place. Just to see what would
happen, I removed it and fired it up.
There was a complaint about vmmon not being loaded, and it appeared that
the install built vmmon.ko for kernel 2.6.15, rather than for 2.6.17, so
I rebuilt it and installed the module.
I re-ran vmplayer and I get errors that networking is not properly
configured. Given the !! above, I'm not surprised.
I think I'll need to go back to the beginning, but I'm not sure what to
do differently that I might succeed.
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