Re: [gentoo-user] Where has vmware-config.pl gone?

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just upgraded from vmware-workstation vmware-workstation-6.0.5.109488
> to vmware-workstation-6.5.1.126130 as I'm upgrading kernels, modules,
> etc, and the old faithful 6.0.5 version has been hard masked...
>
> I get the usual:
>
> VMware Workstation Error:
> VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly)
> configured for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system
> administrator must find and run "vmware-config.pl". For more
> information, please see the VMware Workstation documentation.
>
>
> But for the life of me I can't find vmware-config.pl.  slocate returns
> nothing.  Google isn't helpful either.  The emerge log mentioned `emerge
> --config vmware-workstation` which output this:
>
> Configuring pkg...
>
> Network settings database seems to be invalid,configuring default
> settings
> Configuring Bridged network vmnet0
> Configuring hostonly network vmnet1, probing for unused subnet ...
> Configuring NAT network vmnet8, probing for unused subnet ...
> Configured default networks - Bridged, Hostonly, NAT
>
> But vmware still complains about vmware-config.pl
>
> Any ideas?

I think emerge --config is the "gentoo way".

It runs /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-networks

Here's the snippet from the ebuild:

pkg_config() {
        ${VM_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/vmware-networks --postinstall ${PN},old,new
}