[gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 02/14/2011 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de>  wrote:
>> On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com>
>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files
>>>> total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable to run the vmplayer
>>>> app. The GUI never comes up. If I run it in a terminal it seems to die
>>>> quietly after about 5 seconds. There are no additional messages in
>>>> dmesg.
>>>
>>>
>>> OK - there is nothing of interest in the setup log file above, but in
>>> the same directory there is a player-log which is catching the crash.
>>> I cannot tell what's kicking it off so I'm considering uninstalling
>>> all the vmware stuff, looking for stale links, then reinstalling
>>> vmware.
>>
>> Are you using the ebuilds for vmware?  (Latest versions are in the "vmware"
>> overlay.)  I run latest X.Org (1.9.4) and both workstation as well as player
>> have no problems here.
>
> I switched to those from Pentoo today Nikos and that's when it started
> working. However what I found so far didn't support the bundled
> workstation/tools package, only the workstation so right now I don't
> have the additions stuff installed. I'll be looking into that
> tomorrow.

It has a USE flags for those ("vmware-tools" flag) which pulls-in the 
app-emulation/vmware-tools package.  That package itself has USE flags 
for which tools you want ("vmware_guest_linux", "vmware_guest_windows", 
etc.)

The ISO images for the tools can then be found in the 
/opt/vmware/lib/vmware/isoimages directory.