From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HXMcO-0001DN-Ag for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:18:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2UJGnsJ025753; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:16:49 GMT Received: from mtai04.charter.net (mta04.charter.net [209.225.8.184]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2UJGmOf025748 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:16:48 GMT Received: from aa09.charter.net ([10.20.200.161]) by mtai04.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.00 201-2186-121-20061213) with ESMTP id <20070330191643.NCS1421.mtai04.charter.net@aa09.charter.net> for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:16:43 -0400 Received: from duffman ([24.183.59.142]) by aa09.charter.net with SMTP id <20070330191643.TANJ26943.aa09.charter.net@duffman> for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:16:43 -0400 Received: by duffman (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:16:39 -0500 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:16:39 -0500 From: Brett Johnson To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware problems Message-ID: <20070330191638.GA10472@blzj.com> References: <460D542C.3070007@yahoo.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <460D542C.3070007@yahoo.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Chzlrs: 0 X-Archives-Salt: db1e405a-358c-4360-9a9c-bc655074e606 X-Archives-Hash: 5baedee8ca5bbe517ca4d263509b3a13 On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:17:16PM +0200, Stefan Ruester wrote: > Hello Community, > > i have some serious problems getting VMware-Server running on my new > Gentoo installation. I run gentoo 2006.1 with "~amd64" use-flag and all > packages are up to date. Everything runs fine except VMware-Server. i > set the virtual machine up using vmware server under windows xp and > installed the virtual disk on a fat32 filesystem. I planned to use the > same virtual machine with both os, windows and gentoo, but it doesn't > work as i expected. > The installation went through without a flaw and i can even start the > vmware console and log on to the local machine. i see my virtual machine > but when i try to start it my whole system freezes. I thought it might > be a graphics problem (I'm running beryl desktop) but the freeze also > happens when i start the machine via commandline (vmware-cmd). It would > be much easier if there was at least one entry in any log but actually > there's nothing! Neither in the syslog nor in the vmware log. I did an > strace starting the machine which i can post if there's interest in it. > Anyway the same error occurs also when i start a "fresh" machine without > relation to another install (i.e. no shared disk or that stuff). > Any help highly appreciated! > Not sure if this will help, but I had a similar problem with both vmware-server and vmware-server-console. If I tried to access a running vm, or start a vm, the application would just hang. After a bit of poking around, I was able to determine my issue had something to do with ldap access. My primary account is authenticated via ldap, so there was no local account for my user. I created a local account for my user id and now I can run local vm images as well as connect to remote servers. Brett -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list