Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Thanks to all who mentioned the ebuild.  It hadn't occurred to me that there
would be one.
I'll try setting it up when I get back to that machine tonight.

++ kevin

On 4/30/06, Dave Jones <Dave.Jones@××××××.nl> wrote:
>
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/30/06 06:51:
> > I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm
> > momentarily glad I didn't pay for this thing.  It seems to expect
> > a RedHat style runlevel system.
> > Has anybody successfully fooled with this thing to make it work on
> Gentoo?
>
> > At the moment, its problems seem to be related to the daemon management
> > features.  I could clone them, but it would be a lot of work.
>
> The 5.5.1.19175-r3 ebuild runs perfectly here,  give it a go.
>
> You *must* run vmware-config.pl as root after the install.
>
> If vmware-config.pl complains about being unable to shutdown the vmware
> services, rerun it using the -skipstopstart switch.
>
> rc-update add vmware default  will fix your redhat runlevel problems.
>
> Make sure that the userid you're going to run vmware under is a member
> of the vmware group.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Dave
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