[gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[Martin Larsson]

I've installed vmware, but when I run vmware-config.pl, I get the
following strange
error message:

  What is the location of the directory of C header files that match
your running
  kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

  The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same
  address space size as your running kernel.

Does anybody know what that means?

M.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[Ryan Tandy]

Martin Larsson wrote:
> 
>  What is the location of the directory of C header files that match
> your running
>  kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
> 
>  The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the 
> same
>  address space size as your running kernel.

# uname -r
# ls -l /usr/src/linux

Make sure the /usr/src/linux symlink points to the sources for the 
kernel you're currently running.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[Martin Larsson]

On 5/23/06, Ryan Tandy <tarpman@gmail.com> wrote:
> # uname -r
> # ls -l /usr/src/linux
>
> Make sure the /usr/src/linux symlink points to the sources for the
> kernel you're currently running.

They seem to be:

martin # uname -r
2.6.16-gentoo-r7

martin # ls -l /usr/src/linux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-05-14 13:23 /usr/src/linux ->
linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r7

M.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[Micah Baker]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:11:44PM +0200, Martin Larsson wrote:
> I've installed vmware, but when I run vmware-config.pl, I get the
> following strange
> error message:
> 
>  What is the location of the directory of C header files that match
> your running
>  kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
> 
>  The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same
>  address space size as your running kernel.
> 
> Does anybody know what that means?

You might see this with VMSPLIT_3G_OPT.  
If this is the case, you might be able to find a 1 gig lowmem patch
for vmware-config.pl.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[Alan]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:47:09PM +0200, Martin Larsson wrote:
> On 5/23/06, Ryan Tandy <tarpman@gmail.com> wrote:
> ># uname -r
> ># ls -l /usr/src/linux
> >
> >Make sure the /usr/src/linux symlink points to the sources for the
> >kernel you're currently running.
> 
> They seem to be:
> 
> martin # uname -r
> 2.6.16-gentoo-r7
> 
> martin # ls -l /usr/src/linux
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-05-14 13:23 /usr/src/linux ->
> linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r7

This is a bug with newer kernels.  I fixed it by editing the
vmware-config.pl script and basically commenting out the section around
that error message.  

# vi `which vmware-config.pl`

Then around line 1979 you'll see this:

  if ($header_page_offset =~ /[0-9a-fA-F]{8,}/) {
#    # We found a valid page offset
#    if (defined($gSystem{'page_offset'}) and
#        not (lc($header_page_offset) eq lc($gSystem{'page_offset'}))) {
#      if ($source eq 'user') {
#        print wrap('The kernel defined by this directory of header files does '
#                   . 'not have the same address space size as your running '
#                   . 'kernel.' . "\n\n", 0);
#      }
#      return '';
#    }
  }

I inserted the '#' at the beginning of the lines to basically ignore
this check.  I haven't had any problems with vmware when it's built.

Alan

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[Jason Weisberger]

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The official way to get around this is to install the latest VMWare any-any
update.  Google should find it easily.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[Richard Fish]

On 5/23/06, Martin Larsson <martin.larsson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've installed vmware, but when I run vmware-config.pl, I get the
> following strange
> error message:

Did you install a download directly from vmware, or using the portage
ebuild.  Using the portage ebuild of vmware-workstation would give you
the latest any-any update, and probably resolve this problem.

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[Jason Weisberger]

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Richard,

I think the brand new ebuild within the last week or so will have it, but if
he installed the ebuild without any revisions, it will not contain the
correct any-any update.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[Richard Fish]

On 5/23/06, Jason Weisberger <jbdubbs@gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard,
>
> I think the brand new ebuild within the last week or so will have it, but if
> he installed the ebuild without any revisions, it will not contain the
> correct any-any update.

Well yes, he needs a -r<something>, but nothing was changed in the
last week or so.  The 101 patch was released Apr 3, and the ebuilds
that include it were marked stable over one month ago:

>From /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/ChangeLog:

  17 Apr 2006; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
  vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r10.ebuild,
  vmware-workstation-4.5.3.19414-r3.ebuild,
  vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175-r3.ebuild:
  Marking stable on amd64/x86 (where applicable) to force users to upgrade to
  the new update101 patch, which fixes compilation on several kernels.

Cheers,
-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[Martin Larsson]

On 5/24/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> Well yes, he needs a -r<something>,

I've installed vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175-r3.
But it seemed I had some old versions of vmware-files
in various locations. So I cleaned that up, and now I
can configure.

But when I attempt to actually *run* it, I get:

    vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
    for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
    /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl.

Running vmware-config.pl again just brings me back
to that same error.

M.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[JimD]

Martin Larsson wrote:
> On 5/24/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
>> Well yes, he needs a -r<something>,
> 
> I've installed vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175-r3.
> But it seemed I had some old versions of vmware-files
> in various locations. So I cleaned that up, and now I
> can configure.
> 
> But when I attempt to actually *run* it, I get:
> 
>    vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
>    for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
>    /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl.
> 
> Running vmware-config.pl again just brings me back
> to that same error.
> 
> M.

I get this too.  It appears to be a bug in the startup script.  If I run
/etc/init.d/vmware start and everything comes up.  If I run the startup
script again I get a some failed messages because vmware was already
started.

The startup script places an empty file in /etc/vmware named
not_configured if the startup script fails for any reason.  Being
already started doesn't seem like a good reason to me.

Anyway, all I had to do is remove /etc/vmware/not_configured and all is
golden.

Jim
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[Martin Larsson]

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On 5/28/06, JimD <Jim@keeliegirl.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
> Anyway, all I had to do is remove /etc/vmware/not_configured and all is
> golden.


Thanks, that helped. Now I can run vmware as root.
But attempting to run it as myself, I get:
  (vmware:7809): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Can not open pixbuf loader module
file
  '/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders'

I've added myselft to the vmware-group, but gdk-pixbuf.loaders is:
# ls -la /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
-rw------- 1 root root 3324 2006-05-29 01:51
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders

So something here seems to be all wrong.

I probably should take the hint and just buy a new machine instead of
playing with VMWare. :*)

M.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[JimD]

Martin Larsson wrote:
> On 5/28/06, *JimD* <Jim@keeliegirl.dyndns.org
> <mailto:Jim@keeliegirl.dyndns.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Anyway, all I had to do is remove /etc/vmware/not_configured and all is
>     golden.
> 
> 
> Thanks, that helped. Now I can run vmware as root.
> But attempting to run it as myself, I get:
>   (vmware:7809): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Can not open pixbuf loader module
> file
>   '/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders'
> 
> I've added myselft to the vmware-group, but gdk-pixbuf.loaders is:
> # ls -la /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
> -rw------- 1 root root 3324 2006-05-29 01:51
> /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
> 
> So something here seems to be all wrong.
> 
> I probably should take the hint and just buy a new machine instead of
> playing with VMWare. :*)
> 
> M.

Don't worry about that warning, I get it every time I use VMware and
have not had any issues.  I run VMware Mon-Fri for a good 8 hours.  I
use it for work.

Maybe I will look into the gdk-pixbuf.loaders issue if I find some time.
 Though as I stated, I have not had one issue because of it, I even
played a few smaller games under VMware like Heroes of Might and Magic III.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Problems configuring VMWare

[Remy Blank]

Martin Larsson wrote:
> But attempting to run it as myself, I get:
>   (vmware:7809): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Can not open pixbuf loader module
> file
>   '/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders'
> 
> I've added myselft to the vmware-group, but gdk-pixbuf.loaders is:
> # ls -la /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
> -rw------- 1 root root 3324 2006-05-29 01:51
> /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders

I don't know if this helps, but I am running VMWare player, and the
corresponding file:

/opt/vmware/player/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders

has the following permissions:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 3244 mai 20 08:49 gdk-pixbuf.loaders

So you might just want to try and chmod it to 664.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare

[Martin Larsson]

On 5/29/06, JimD <Jim@keeliegirl.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Don't worry about that warning, I get it every time I use VMware and
> have not had any issues.  I run VMware Mon-Fri for a good 8 hours.  I
> use it for work.

Sounds like a good idea, except, vmware doesn't start. All I get is a
screenfull of 'gdk-pixbuf.loaders not accessible'-messages. :*)

Remy Blank wrote:
> has the following permissions:
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 3244 mai 20 08:49 gdk-pixbuf.loaders
> So you might just want to try and chmod it to 664.

Trying that gave me:
(null): file ../../pango-1.4.1/pango/shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape):
assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)

(process:9070): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL (recursed) **: file
../../glib-2.4.8/gobject/gobject.c: line 1561 (g_object_ref):
assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
aborting...


So. I'll be running as root, I guess. :*)

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[gentoo-user] Re: Problems configuring VMWare

[Remy Blank]

Martin Larsson wrote:
> Remy Blank wrote:
>> has the following permissions:
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 3244 mai 20 08:49 gdk-pixbuf.loaders
>> So you might just want to try and chmod it to 664.
> 
> Trying that gave me:
> (null): file ../../pango-1.4.1/pango/shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape):
> assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)
> 
> (process:9070): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL (recursed) **: file
> ../../glib-2.4.8/gobject/gobject.c: line 1561 (g_object_ref):
> assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> aborting...

Well, then that was only part of the problem. Two ideas I can offer:

 - There might be other files with broken permissions. You could try
finding them with something like:

    find /opt/vmware -perm 0400 -o -perm 0600 -o -perm 0700

If this finds any, set the permissions correctly (usually the owner and
group have the same permission bits, and the write bit is removed for
world).

 - Try to run "revdep-rebuild -pv" and see if you have any broken
dependencies in libraries used by vmware, and if so, re-emerge them.

> So. I'll be running as root, I guess. :*)

Personally, I would *never* ever do that. But hey, it's your computer.

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