Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware [fixed]
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:51:11
Message-Id: 1133963158.9823.2.camel@linuxstation
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware by theboywho
1 Hi,
2 I reinstalled, reconfigured, edited '/etc/group' and all works.
3 Thanks.
4
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6
7 On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 16:37 +0000, theboywho wrote:
8 > On Sunday 04 December 2005 16:16, Nuitari wrote:
9 > > > Hi, I have tried to start vmware and I get
10 > > > 'failed to start unable to connect to peer process.
11 > > > I have purchased vm previously but this still happens with my serial.
12 > > > Do I need this and can anyone help?
13 > > > Gavin.
14 > >
15 > > It can be 2 things
16 > > Either /dev/vmmon is missing or you do not have permissions for it.
17 > > You have to add your user to the vmware group and login / logout to have
18 > > access to it.
19 > >
20 > > If it is missing you need to do:
21 > > mknod vmmon c 10 165
22 > >
23 > > On my system I do a udevstart after all modules are loaded to be sure I'm
24 > > not missing any /dev files. Does anyone know if there is a better way ?
25 >
26 > On my system vmmon and vmnetx get created when the modules are loaded - I am
27 > using udev.
28 >
29 > --
30 > theboywho
31 > theboywho@×××××××××.com
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33 Dr Gavin Seddon
34 School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
35 University of Manchester
36 Oxford Road, Manchester
37 M13 9PL, U.K.
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