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Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm |
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> momentarily glad |
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> I didn't pay for this thing. It seems to expect a RedHat style |
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> 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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> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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It looks like there is an ebuild. |
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However, I use VMWare workstation 4.x. All it really needs is |
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/etc/rc.[0-6] directories and a symlink. |
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Try the ebuild or just do what I did: |
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cd /etc |
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mkdir rc.d |
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for i in $(seq 0 6); do echo mkdir rc${i}.d; done |
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ln -sf ../init.d |
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After that you should be able to run the installer. The installer will |
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place a file named vmware in /etc/init.d/. I just run that file before |
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I want to start VMWare. All the startup script does is bring up the |
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virtual network that vmware uses. |
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Jim |
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