Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@××××××××.ch>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:08:18
Message-Id: 200603112005.27172.tcoulon@decoulon.ch
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question by Mark Knecht
1 On Saturday 11 March 2006 19.57, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > Answering self:
3 >
4 > On 3/11/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > > 1) Does it matter?
6 >
7 > Yes.
8 >
9 > > 2) Is it possibly because of my chroot?
10 >
11 > Most probably yes.
12 >
13 > > I'll comtinue on and see how it goes.
14 >
15 > When you are running do you see new modules loaded? When I try to run
16 > insode the chroot I end up with this message:
17 >
18 > lightning portage # Parallels
19 > Module vm-main is not found! Parallels Workstation 2.0 is installed,
20 > but it has not been configured for your running kernel. To configure
21 > it please login as root and run Parallels-config. For more information
22 > see the INSTALL file in Parallels Workstation 2.0 documentation
23 > directory.
24 > lightning portage #
25 >
26 > Almost certainy this is beacuse of being the the chroot jail and not
27 > being able to load the module in the 64-bit environment I suppose.
28 >
29 > Ho humm......
30 >
31 > - Mark
32
33 I'd say you are right.
34 I would suggest you send a message to parallels support. I did that to make
35 sure about the license number and got a very fast answer.
36
37 This would confirm your hypothesis and make them aware there may be a market
38 for a 64 bit version...
39
40 Thierry
41
42 --
43 The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
44 capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
45 safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
46 Frank Zappa
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>