From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L01Rl-0004HJ-2Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:10:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BB20E0261; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A22E0261 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:10:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FEB964DFF for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:10:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 1.895 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.895 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.927, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067, SARE_RAND_2=2.5] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CHhiNn7gEgcu for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:10:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B0464DDF for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L01Qw-0000W5-Ja for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:10:02 +0000 Received: from 202.0.36.169 ([202.0.36.169]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:10:02 +0000 Received: from allistar.m by 202.0.36.169 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:10:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Allistar Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:53:39 +1300 Message-ID: References: <9acccfe50811101924m5c0b50a9kba4fd3340daa4ba@mail.gmail.com> <20081111084315.6f6bc10c@digimed.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.0.36.169 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 176f7326-028d-4a5a-8766-0e5e0d9eaf5d X-Archives-Hash: de74e0c63131cd12a3d541d0db08c6c2 Neil Bothwick 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. You're running 2.6.26 and have VMWare Workstation working properly? What architecture? I am still on 2.6.19 because any later kernels result in Workstation not working (it crashes when starting a VM, and also stops my keyboard from working).