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On Sunday 04 December 2005 16:16, Nuitari wrote: |
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> > Hi, I have tried to start vmware and I get |
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> > 'failed to start unable to connect to peer process. |
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> > I have purchased vm previously but this still happens with my serial. |
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> > Do I need this and can anyone help? |
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> > Gavin. |
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> |
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> It can be 2 things |
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> Either /dev/vmmon is missing or you do not have permissions for it. |
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> You have to add your user to the vmware group and login / logout to have |
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> access to it. |
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> |
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> If it is missing you need to do: |
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> mknod vmmon c 10 165 |
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> On my system I do a udevstart after all modules are loaded to be sure I'm |
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> not missing any /dev files. Does anyone know if there is a better way ? |
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On my system vmmon and vmnetx get created when the modules are loaded - I am |
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using udev. |
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