From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PAUUB-0001W8-1H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:21:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56078E0A9F; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:21:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18096E0A9F for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:21:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb40 with SMTP id 40so4217571wyb.40 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:21:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=BpqtAhzKI+vXf1ycBZqWC10yuCNNSS2v25e75dZNAhE=; b=MboBCo4gQqMRVeYwhvp72ZT/KtDpw1h4EnFUWUfhcNV2n2otDNxJCBXEWSuLqtEmWK DTls4utGYEXxkSjfzu3rZkE/g3MCE5bCFfUZwd+/t4/Kc9HvhyAMML7I2X8TcR8n6RZa 20gsoE4yfNIdENwEG4eqvaX43NMs86fU+daw4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tyFewAYO5C2/D7XW5R1hy+/idINCpcozF/VTUpFUKqyR9e+yzondLjQjckcDFHfVZp 0l00DwDfKj10wObxwRIkb2esmbK5R4SHb9z7bQNg0GT9muvhPXCshz2qol8o+91CvJTT KKUy8RdXE3Fvd8N6TRM/RiTbuxVSXEV0h4AEA= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.165.77 with SMTP id d55mr1063239wel.23.1288041693539; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:21:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.7.140 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:21:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1287985076.3454.25.camel@localhost> References: <1287985076.3454.25.camel@localhost> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:21:33 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware - help From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: fb27fc3f-b9de-4125-a355-777206ed682b X-Archives-Hash: a5f2ceddcb271e7c37078d579869c054 On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Iain Buchanan wr= ote: > Hi all, looking for some serious vmware debugging help! =C2=A0I've had > vmware-workstation working for ages, but sometime this year (ok I use it > sporadically!) it's stopped. =C2=A0I don't know if its the old GTK issue = or > what. =C2=A0No google searches has found anything similar, although I've > tried a lot of suggestions I found anyway. =C2=A0Most recently I've > recompiled the kernel, modules and workstation. > > I currently using workstation 6.5.4.246459 with tuxonice sources 2.6.35 > and modules 1.0.0.25-r1 If you have working VMWare images then you might (in the short term - until you solve this problem) get the VMWare Player and use it to run what you need right now. I found that once I had set up a few Windows images I didn't need Workstation anymore. True, it has some nice features, but I wasn't using them. I use the Pentoo overlay for my copy of the Player. I'm sure it's available elsewhere. Cheers, Mark