Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware problems

[Brett Johnson]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:17:16PM +0200, Stefan Ruester wrote:
> Hello Community,
>
> i have some serious problems getting VMware-Server running on my new
> Gentoo installation. I run gentoo 2006.1 with "~amd64" use-flag and all
> packages are up to date. Everything runs fine except VMware-Server. i
> set the virtual machine up using vmware server under windows xp and
> installed the virtual disk on a fat32 filesystem. I planned to use the
> same virtual machine with both os, windows and gentoo, but it doesn't
> work as i expected.
> The installation went through without a flaw and i can even start the
> vmware console and log on to the local machine. i see my virtual machine
> but when i try to start it my whole system freezes. I thought it might
> be a graphics problem (I'm running beryl desktop) but the freeze also
> happens when i start the machine via commandline (vmware-cmd). It would
> be much easier if there was at least one entry in any log but actually
> there's nothing! Neither in the syslog nor in the vmware log. I did an
> strace starting the machine which i can post if there's interest in it.
> Anyway the same error occurs also when i start a "fresh" machine without
> relation to another install (i.e. no shared disk or that stuff).
> Any help highly appreciated!
>
Not sure if this will help, but I had a similar problem with both
vmware-server and vmware-server-console. If I tried to access a running
vm, or start a vm, the application would just hang. After a bit of
poking around, I was able to determine my issue had something to do with
ldap access. My primary account is authenticated via ldap, so there was
no local account for my user. I created a local account for my user id
and now I can run local vm images as well as connect to remote servers.

Brett
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