[gentoo-amd64] VMware problems

[gentoo-amd64] VMware problems

[Stefan Ruester]

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!


Stefan Ruester
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware problems

[Brett Johnson]

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
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware problems

[Stefan Ruester]

Brett Johnson wrote:
> 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

Thanks for your help.
I authenticate only local. So my user account is already there. However,
i think the problem might be related to a perl problem. I'm not
absolutely sure about this but the strace showed the following

.....
open("/usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/auto/VMware/VmPerl/VmPerl.so",O_RDONLY)=4
.....
sendto(4, "\237W\0", 3, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 3
read(4, "\237W\1\1", 2048)              = 4
sendto(4, "\202\0", 2, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 2
read(4, "\242\7\237&\0041.01", 2048)    = 9
sendto(4, "\204\0", 2, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 2
read(4, "\204\2\3\206", 2048)=4
sendto(4,"\277YO\237\201I\1\1\277\201L\6\237\201S\2\3\206\237\"7"...,82,MSG_NOSIGNAL,NULL,0)=82
read(4, "\237Y\1\1", 2048)=4
sendto(4, "\277\"\10\237\201I\1\1\212\1\2", 11, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL,0)=11
read(4,

So the system hangs at a read from "VmPerl.so". A second trace stopped
at exactly the same position which makes me think there around might be
the problem.

Stefan
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[gentoo-amd64] Re: VMware problems

[Duncan]

Stefan Ruester <stefan_ruester@yahoo.de> posted 460E1C6F.1030503@yahoo.de,
excerpted below, on  Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:31:43 +0200:

> So the system hangs at a read from "VmPerl.so". A second trace stopped
> at exactly the same position which makes me think there around might be
> the problem.

That would suggest running revdep-rebuild.  Have you run it lately?  
(It's possible you mentioned doing so at the top of the thread, but I'm 
headed to work and don't have time to check at the moment.)

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: VMware problems

[Stefan Ruester]

>> So the system hangs at a read from "VmPerl.so"
> 
> That would suggest running revdep-rebuild.  Have you run it lately?  
> 

I did. revdep-rebuild says everything is fine. I have no clue how to
solve this problem. Perhaps someone will give me "the hint" as time
passes by... i hope so... until then i keep searching for it myself. thx
for you answer anyway :)
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