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Thus spake Abraham Al-Saleh on Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 02:12:39AM CDT |
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> I haven't really noticed any issues with udev and vmware. Would you |
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> care to name some? |
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See the two URLs I quoted below, which I found on researching the issue |
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here. They pretty much mirror my experience. Apparently VMWare doesn't put |
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proper sysfs support into their vmnet module so udev and hotplug can't |
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be told how to create the necessary device nodes. |
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Setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" in /etc/conf.d/rc after running |
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vmware-config.pl solves the problem since the script creates the nodes and |
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they're saved across reboots. |
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The only other alternative is to put a series of mknod's in a rc file |
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somewhere that'll get executed before the vmware startup, but using |
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RC_DEVICE_TARBALL is a better solution. See the middle panel of my sig for |
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further wisdom on the subject ;-) |
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> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:07:43 -0500, Lindsay Haisley |
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> <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com> wrote: |
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> > Well it seems that there are issues with udev and VMWare. The VMWare devs |
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> > "find sysfs really ugly and hard to use" |
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> > (http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=7968&messageID=63805) |
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> > and it looks like we're going to have to find a workaround. |
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> > Apparently RH Fedora supports /etc/udev/devices (see |
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> > <http://people.redhat.com/~harald/udev.html>), which isn't supported in |
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> > Gentoo. Devices files in this dir get copied on udev startup to /dev. |
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> > Perhaps this would be a good idea. I can always just set |
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> > RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" after creating the necessary device files and/or |
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> > symlinks, but this seems like a bit of a cop-out ;-) But if it works, I'll |
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> > use it. |
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> > -- |
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> > Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key |
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> > FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at |
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> > 512-259-1190 | (Travis W. Redfish) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> |
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> > http://www.fmp.com | ("The Roadie") | |
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> > -- |
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> > gentoo-desktop@g.o mailing list |
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> Abe Al-Saleh |
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> And then came the Apocolypse. It actually wasn't that |
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> bad, everyone got the day off and there were barbeques |
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> all around. |
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Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key |
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FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at |
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512-259-1190 | (Travis W. Redfish) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> |
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http://www.fmp.com | ("The Roadie") | |
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