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

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

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?

Oh, and I've been running vmware-server because that's what I was teaching with
at school.  Now the school has gone to VirtualBox because it appears
not  to have
the update hassles of VMware.  I'll probably do the same, but I have
to recover a bunch
of data from this VMware VM first.

Server was also nice because I could create new VMs with it, which Workstation
would not do.  VirtualBox will do that too, it seems.

I think I'll try that Workstation tarball...
-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD