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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GjLmX-0004RB-S1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:18:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kACKGBZM032575; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:16:11 GMT Received: from brego.pewamo.office ([216.157.203.105]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kACKDjaJ010323 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:13:46 GMT Received: by brego.pewamo.office (Postfix, from userid 500) id C292B108D38; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:13:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:13:42 -0500 From: Michael George To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-player installation Message-ID: <20061112201342.GA664@brego.pewamo.office> References: <20061112192108.GA29561@brego.pewamo.office> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061112192108.GA29561@brego.pewamo.office> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: daeec8d9-990e-4545-be45-60dcdf104c1b X-Archives-Hash: 2650549ac44da22634d132ac4cc36123 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 There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list