[gentoo-user] Problems getting started with vmware

[gentoo-user] Problems getting started with vmware

[Walter Dnes]

  I had almost no problems doing a stage 1 Gentoo install, so I can
RTFM, providing that TFM is half-decently written.  vmware's manual is
not very helpful.

  Right now my main problem is getting started.  I've "~x86" keyworded
the necessary items for vmware-server and vmware-server-console to get
installed in Gentoo.  I've added the user account to the vmware group,
and logged out and in.

  Looking at the console, I get the impression that I'm supposed to
connect to a running vmware host.  Acting on a wild hunch, I dug through
"/etc/init.d/" and noticed "vmware".  So I tried the obvious...
"/etc/init.d/vmware start".  I got a couple of messages about needing to
emerge vmware-modules, and running the config utility.  I did both.  The
config utility asks for a 20-digit-serial-number.  Huh, I though this
was free?  When I cancel, it says that I can't power on a VM until I
enter a licence number, but the server does appear to start.

  When I start vmware-server-console in an xterm, I get the following
message...

waltdnes@m3000 ~ $ vmware-server-console 
/opt/vmware/server/console/lib/bin/vmware-server-console: /opt/vmware/server/console/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

  The console menus are mostly greyed out, and the new virtual machine
menu item doesn't work (no licence number?).  Now what?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems getting started with vmware

[Brett I. Holcomb]

It is free however, you still need a license number. Go to their site and get 
one.

On Monday November 13 2006 23:00, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I had almost no problems doing a stage 1 Gentoo install, so I can
> RTFM, providing that TFM is half-decently written.  vmware's manual is
> not very helpful.
>

snip

>
>   Looking at the console, I get the impression that I'm supposed to
> connect to a running vmware host.  Acting on a wild hunch, I dug through
> "/etc/init.d/" and noticed "vmware".  So I tried the obvious...
> "/etc/init.d/vmware start".  I got a couple of messages about needing to
> emerge vmware-modules, and running the config utility.  I did both.  The
> config utility asks for a 20-digit-serial-number.  Huh, I though this
> was free?  When I cancel, it says that I can't power on a VM until I
> enter a licence number, but the server does appear to start.
>
>   When I start vmware-server-console in an xterm, I get the following
> message...
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems getting started with vmware

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:23:14PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote
> It is free however, you still need a license number. Go to their
> site and get one.

  Do I really have to give all that personal info to create an account
to get a licence which *MIGHT* run OS/2?  May as well buy Parallels,
instead.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems getting started with vmware

[Norman Rieß]

Walter Dnes schrieb:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:23:14PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote
>   
>> It is free however, you still need a license number. Go to their
>> site and get one.
>>     
>
>   Do I really have to give all that personal info to create an account
> to get a licence which *MIGHT* run OS/2?  May as well buy Parallels,
> instead.
>
>   
No, you can uninstall vmware, too.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Problems getting started with vmware

[reader]

"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:23:14PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote
>> It is free however, you still need a license number. Go to their
>> site and get one.
>
>   Do I really have to give all that personal info to create an account
> to get a licence which *MIGHT* run OS/2?  May as well buy Parallels,
> instead.

Walter, did you actually get a license somehow?  When I look on their
pages unders `product licensing'.  A `VMware Product Licensing' page
appears with no real indication of which license or even what product
is being discussed... at least the names do not coincide with anything
in portage.

Further it appears to expect the reader to already have some kind of
codes in hand.

In fact the whole setup there is massively confusing.  A bewildering
array of products all with very similar names and no real definitions
of how each is different.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems getting started with vmware

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:05:09AM -0600, reader@newsguy.com wrote

> Walter, did you actually get a license somehow?  When I look on their
> pages unders `product licensing'.  A `VMware Product Licensing' page
> appears with no real indication of which license or even what product
> is being discussed... at least the names do not coincide with anything
> in portage.
> 
> Further it appears to expect the reader to already have some kind of
> codes in hand.
> 
> In fact the whole setup there is massively confusing.  A bewildering
> array of products all with very similar names and no real definitions
> of how each is different.

  That's what turned me off, and I didn't bother.  I had wanted to make
a post just like yours, but I figured that I was coming out of this
thread looking like a professional ranter, so I decided to keep quiet.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Problems getting started with vmware

[reader]

"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> writes:

>   That's what turned me off, and I didn't bother.  I had wanted to make
> a post just like yours, but I figured that I was coming out of this
> thread looking like a professional ranter, so I decided to keep quiet.

Guess I wasn't as smart.... hehe.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems getting started with vmware

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Tuesday 14 November 2006 05:00, Walter Dnes wrote:
> When I start vmware-server-console in an xterm, I get the following
> message...
>
> waltdnes@m3000 ~ $ vmware-server-console
> /opt/vmware/server/console/lib/bin/vmware-server-console:
> /opt/vmware/server/console/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version
> information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

That warning message is non-fatal and hence irrelevant.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148682#c14

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