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

[Allistar <allistar.m@gmail.com>]

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.