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On 5/17/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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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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Thanks, Richard, that did the trick. |
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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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I'm not sure I did anything for this, but the networking seems to have been |
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fixed, or fixed itself, or something. |
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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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Using the portage version. |
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-Richard |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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