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On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:11, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> I have a 30-day license to evaluate this beast, and it is not going well. |
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> I blame my own inexperience, not VMware, but it's still frustrating. |
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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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> 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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Though I've never used VMware with Minix as the guest, I can assume the |
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principles are the same as they are when I use it for Windows. |
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The trick to getting it to work easy for me has always been the "configure |
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networking" step of vmware-config.pl. DON'T try to configure NAT, scan for |
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private subnets or anything, just use the bridged network. Here's the result |
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of me running the config script: |
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# /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl |
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Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped. |
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* Stopping VMware services: [ ok ] |
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* Virtual machine monitor [ ok ] |
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* Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ ok ] |
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* Virtual ethernet [ ok ] |
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Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries. |
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Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel. |
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None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for |
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your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon |
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module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your |
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system)? [yes] yes |
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Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override. |
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What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your |
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running kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r6/build/include] |
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Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. |
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Building the vmmon module. |
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<snip> |
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Would you like to skip networking setup and keep your old settings as they |
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are? (yes/no) [yes] no |
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Do you want networking for your virtual machines? (yes/no/help) [yes] y |
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Would you prefer to modify your existing networking configuration using the |
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wizard or the editor? (wizard/editor/help) [wizard] wizard |
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The following bridged networks have been defined: |
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All your ethernet interfaces are already bridged. |
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Do you want to be able to use NAT networking in your virtual machines? |
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(yes/no) [yes] no |
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Do you want to be able to use host-only networking in your virtual machines? |
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[no] no |
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Extracting the sources of the vmnet module. |
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Building the vmnet module. |
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<snip> |
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The module loads perfectly in the running kernel. |
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* Starting VMware services: [ ok ] |
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* Virtual machine monitor [ ok ] |
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* Virtual ethernet [ ok ] |
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* Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ ok ] |
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The configuration of VMware Workstation 5.5.1 build-19175 for Linux for this |
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running kernel completed successfully. |
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You can now run VMware Workstation by invoking the following command: |
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"/opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware". |
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Enjoy, |
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--the VMware team |
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