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

["Andrey Falko" <ma3oxuct@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> 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?
>
>
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
>
Can you post the output of the following commands:

emerge -pv vmware-modules

modprobe vmmon

We might be able to get to the cause of the problem. I'm having absolutely
no problems on a 2.6.24.7 kernel and vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1

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