Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

[Noven <lists@magedata.net>]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:03:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Allistar <allistar.m@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:24:15 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> >>>> I've re-emerge vmware-modules, re-run ...vmware-config.pl, and prayed.
> >>>> I still cannot do
> >>>>    /etc/init.d/vmware start
> >>>> because this one part fails: Virutal machine Monitor
> >>>> and trying "vmware&" says I need to run the config script (again).
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm getting nowhere and I really do want to run that VM again.
> >>>
> >>> Have you updated your kernel? VMware Workstation gives me problems like
> >>> this with each new kernel, which is why I'm still running 2.6.26 on my
> >>> desktop.
> >>
> >> I'm running 2.6.25-r8.  I probably have updated since the last time I
> >> ran VMware.
> >> But I thought the above steps took care of that.  I guess not.
> >>
> >> So what do I do now?
> >
> > From what I've experienced, the order you emerge vmware-workstation and
> > vmware-modules is important. When getting the error you mention, a simple
> > re-emerge of vmware-modules did the job.
>
> This did not help.
>
> I tried downloading VMWare-workstation, but the emerge fails on fetch
> restrictions,
> and the message points to a file on a server that denies it has such a
> file.
>
> The workstation bundle runs an installer that wants a runlevel
> directory, but rejects
> the /etc/runlevels directory and subdirectories.  I'm guessing it
> wants something
> more like SYSV.

In your /etc dir, link rc{0-6}.d and rcS.d to /etc/init.d .

Also ensure vmware-modules is *not* installed before running the installer 
bundle.

Can't remember if I did anythig else tricky, but its workig beautifully here.

- Noven