[gentoo-amd64] VMware problems

[Stefan Ruester <stefan_ruester@yahoo.de>]

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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