Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

[Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch>]

On Saturday 11 March 2006 19.57, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Answering self:
>
> On 3/11/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1) Does it matter?
>
> Yes.
>
> > 2) Is it possibly because of my chroot?
>
> Most probably yes.
>
> > I'll comtinue on and see how it goes.
>
> When you are running do you see new modules loaded? When I try to run
> insode the chroot I end up with this message:
>
> lightning portage # Parallels
> Module vm-main is not found! Parallels Workstation 2.0 is installed,
> but it has not been configured for your running kernel. To configure
> it please login as root and run Parallels-config. For more information
> see the INSTALL file in Parallels Workstation 2.0 documentation
> directory.
> lightning portage #
>
> Almost certainy this is beacuse of being the the chroot jail and not
> being able to load the module in the 64-bit environment I suppose.
>
> Ho humm......
>
> - Mark

I'd say you are right.
I would suggest you send a message to parallels support. I did that to make 
sure about the license number and got a very fast answer.

This would confirm your hypothesis and make them aware there may be a market 
for a 64 bit version...

Thierry

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