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

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

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.





-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD