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From: Andrey Falko <ma3oxuct@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:06:33
Message-Id: 350fc7cf0811111504k570abab6y944557bea952ab68@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start by Kevin O'Gorman
1 On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
4 > wrote:
5 > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:24:15 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
6 > >
7 > >> I've re-emerge vmware-modules, re-run ...vmware-config.pl, and prayed.
8 > >> I still cannot do
9 > >> /etc/init.d/vmware start
10 > >> because this one part fails: Virutal machine Monitor
11 > >> and trying "vmware&" says I need to run the config script (again).
12 > >>
13 > >> I'm getting nowhere and I really do want to run that VM again.
14 > >>
15 > >
16 > > Have you updated your kernel? VMware Workstation gives me problems like
17 > > this with each new kernel, which is why I'm still running 2.6.26 on my
18 > > desktop.
19 > >
20 >
21 > I'm running 2.6.25-r8. I probably have updated since the last time I
22 > ran VMware.
23 > But I thought the above steps took care of that. I guess not.
24 >
25 > So what do I do now?
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 > --
30 > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
31 >
32 >
33 Can you post the output of the following commands:
34
35 emerge -pv vmware-modules
36
37 modprobe vmmon
38
39 We might be able to get to the cause of the problem. I'm having absolutely
40 no problems on a 2.6.24.7 kernel and vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1

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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>