Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:02:40
Message-Id: 58965d8a0901200902u33249ca3rd5666e42e96bee50@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem by John Smith
1 On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:53 AM, John Smith <tfn2kk@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Paul Hartman wrote:
3 >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM, John Smith <tfn2kk@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> Hello,
6 >>>
7 >>> I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly.
8 >>>
9 >>> I've tried vmware-workstation 6.5.0 and 6.5.1. Either one crashes when
10 >>> clicking the "Create a new virtual machine" button. It gives no error
11 >>> nothing it just quits the program.
12 >>> The user is in the vmware group. Everything seems to work fine except
13 >>> "Create a new virtual machine" button.
14 >>>
15 >>> Any suggestion how can i get any debug output or something.
16 >>>
17 >>>
18 >>
19 >> If you run it from a terminal does it show any output there when it crashes?
20 >>
21 >>
22 > Nothing no error not even any kind of message.
23 >
24 >
25
26 vmware is a wrapper script, maybe it's hiding some messages. Try to
27 run the actual executable. On my system it is located in:
28
29 /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin