[gentoo-user] vmware-player installation

[gentoo-user] vmware-player installation

[Michael George]

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.

Anyone have any advice?

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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-player installation

[Michael George]

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.

-- 
-M

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	Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
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