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Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/30/06 06:51: |
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> I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm |
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> momentarily glad I didn't pay for this thing. It seems to expect |
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> a RedHat style runlevel system. |
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> Has anybody successfully fooled with this thing to make it work on Gentoo? |
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> At the moment, its problems seem to be related to the daemon management |
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> features. I could clone them, but it would be a lot of work. |
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The 5.5.1.19175-r3 ebuild runs perfectly here, give it a go. |
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You *must* run vmware-config.pl as root after the install. |
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If vmware-config.pl complains about being unable to shutdown the vmware |
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services, rerun it using the -skipstopstart switch. |
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rc-update add vmware default will fix your redhat runlevel problems. |
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Make sure that the userid you're going to run vmware under is a member |
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of the vmware group. |
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Hope this helps. |
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Dave |
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