Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:55:13
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0603111053m3d8c1ed5t19aecdfdd9b429cb@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question by Thierry de Coulon
1 On 3/11/06, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@××××××××.ch> wrote:
2 > On Saturday 11 March 2006 17.58, Mark Knecht wrote:
3 > > Thanks Thierry,
4 > > I'm looking at what to download right now. Did you use the 2.0
5 > > release or the 2.1RC?
6 > >
7 > > If it works I'll be doing a Win XP install within a chroot already
8 > > on the machine. We'll see...
9 > >
10 > > Thanks,
11 > > Mark
12 >
13 > The trial download proposed 2.1 Beta 2 and that's what I used. If you
14 > purchase, you get a 2.0 key (that does not work on 2.1!) but you should get
15 > the good key soon when they release 2.1
16 >
17 > So I'd test 2.1, as it seems stable - I've got OS72 working with nfs in very
18 > little time.
19 > The only thing I could not get to work is the (real) cd rom. Parallels say
20 > someting about needing rights on the cdrom (chmod a+r) but it does not seem
21 > to work, anything I try I can only mount an iso file.
22 >
23 > However, given nfs access, it's not a problem, even more as os/2 is installed
24 > mostly because I have a lot of old files requiring os/2 programs and because
25 > I was ready to spend $50 to get old feelings back :)
26 >
27 > On gentoo I can use vmware on the rare cases where I have to fire up Windows.
28 >
29 > Thierry
30
31 Hi Thierrry,
32 Strange that the download I ended up with (using the emerge
33 installation files they provide)
34 seems to be 2.0. None the less the emerge inside of my chroot went
35 cleanly. I then ran the Parallels-config step and see this message:
36
37 Configuring Parallels Workstation 2.0 drivers...
38 Compiling Parallels Workstation 2.0 drivers...
39 Drivers have been compiled successfully.
40 Installing drivers...
41 Starting drivers...
42 Load Parallels Workstation 2.0 hypervisor ...
43 insmod: error inserting
44 '/usr/lib/Parallels/Drivers/Hypervisor/hypervisor.o': -1 Invalid
45 module format
46 Can not load hypervisor module.
47 Configuration completed successfully
48
49 Now you can run Parallels Workstation 2.0
50 Issue "Parallels" command.
51
52 lightning portage #
53
54 Did you see anything like this?
55
56 1) Does it matter?
57 2) Is it possibly because of my chroot?
58
59 I'll comtinue on and see how it goes.
60
61 Cheers,
62 Mark
63
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