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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:53:24 -0800
From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start
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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