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On 5/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> As things stand, I can start my virtual machine (the current one runs |
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> Minix) only as root. I can start vmware as a user, but any attempt to |
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> start my VM brings up a message about it not being able to connect |
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> to its peer (whatever that is), and the VM does not start. |
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Add your user to the 'vmware' group. |
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> When I run as root, things seem better, but it complains that it was |
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> unable to extablish an IP number for the simulated ethernet card |
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> (networking is set up for NAT). |
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Did you use the portage installation of vmware-workstation, or |
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download direct? IME, the portage installation works much better... |
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-Richard |
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