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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:53:30
Message-Id: 9acccfe50811111453p7e3b539dx449caa632f484d67@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start by Neil Bothwick
1 On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:24:15 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
3 >
4 >> I've re-emerge vmware-modules, re-run ...vmware-config.pl, and prayed.
5 >> I still cannot do
6 >> /etc/init.d/vmware start
7 >> because this one part fails: Virutal machine Monitor
8 >> and trying "vmware&" says I need to run the config script (again).
9 >>
10 >> I'm getting nowhere and I really do want to run that VM again.
11 >>
12 >
13 > Have you updated your kernel? VMware Workstation gives me problems like
14 > this with each new kernel, which is why I'm still running 2.6.26 on my
15 > desktop.
16 >
17
18 I'm running 2.6.25-r8. I probably have updated since the last time I
19 ran VMware.
20 But I thought the above steps took care of that. I guess not.
21
22 So what do I do now?
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27 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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