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I figured it out... along with the vmmon module being built for the |
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wrong kernel was the vmnet module. Once I built it for the right |
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kernel, put it into place and ran "/etc/init.d/vmware start", it runs |
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without error. |
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Sorry for the intrusion. :) |
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On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:21:08PM -0500, Michael George wrote: |
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> I am trying to install vmware-player, but things don't seem to be |
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> working right. |
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> |
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> Aftere doing the emerge, and starting /etc/init.d/vmware, I was told |
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> that cupsd had to be started after vmware but that some of the vmware |
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> dependencies required cupsd. Since I don't need to pring from the VM, I |
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> blew that off. |
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> I ran vmware-config.pl and set up the bridged networking. But after |
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> answering the questions, I get: |
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> * Starting VMware services: [ ok ] |
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> * Virtual machine monitor [ ok ] |
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> * Virtual ethernet [ !! ] |
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> * Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ !! ] |
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> |
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> (on my first attempt I configured the bridged and NAT networking, but |
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> I've re-run vmware-config.pl since then). |
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> When I ran vmplayer, I was told that it wasn't configured as |
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> /etc/vmware/not_configured was still in place. Just to see what would |
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> happen, I removed it and fired it up. |
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> There was a complaint about vmmon not being loaded, and it appeared that |
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> the install built vmmon.ko for kernel 2.6.15, rather than for 2.6.17, so |
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> I rebuilt it and installed the module. |
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> I re-ran vmplayer and I get errors that networking is not properly |
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> configured. Given the !! above, I'm not surprised. |
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> I think I'll need to go back to the beginning, but I'm not sure what to |
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> do differently that I might succeed. |
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-M |
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There are 10 kinds of people in this world: |
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Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. |
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