Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Stefan Ruester <stefan_ruester@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] VMware problems
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:19:42
Message-Id: 460D542C.3070007@yahoo.de
1 Hello Community,
2
3 i have some serious problems getting VMware-Server running on my new
4 Gentoo installation. I run gentoo 2006.1 with "~amd64" use-flag and all
5 packages are up to date. Everything runs fine except VMware-Server. i
6 set the virtual machine up using vmware server under windows xp and
7 installed the virtual disk on a fat32 filesystem. I planned to use the
8 same virtual machine with both os, windows and gentoo, but it doesn't
9 work as i expected.
10 The installation went through without a flaw and i can even start the
11 vmware console and log on to the local machine. i see my virtual machine
12 but when i try to start it my whole system freezes. I thought it might
13 be a graphics problem (I'm running beryl desktop) but the freeze also
14 happens when i start the machine via commandline (vmware-cmd). It would
15 be much easier if there was at least one entry in any log but actually
16 there's nothing! Neither in the syslog nor in the vmware log. I did an
17 strace starting the machine which i can post if there's interest in it.
18 Anyway the same error occurs also when i start a "fresh" machine without
19 relation to another install (i.e. no shared disk or that stuff).
20 Any help highly appreciated!
21
22
23 Stefan Ruester
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware problems Brett Johnson <brett@××××.com>