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Hi, |
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On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 20:12 -0400, David Relson wrote: |
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> Greetings, |
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> I've got vmware-server installed on my AMD64x2 workstation with kernel |
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> 2.6.25-gentoo-r4. It used to work fine with kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r9. |
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> My current versions are: |
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> vmware-server: 1.0.5.80187 |
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> vmware-modules: 1.0.0.15-r1 |
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> Today vmware won't start up. It's complaining: |
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> vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured |
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> for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command: |
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> /opt/vmware/server/bin/vmware-config.pl. |
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> I've run vmware-config.pl and accepted the default answers to all |
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> questions -- the same thing I've done several times over the past |
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> year. The run ends with the following messages: |
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> * Starting VMware services: [ ok ] |
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> * Virtual machine monitor [ !! ] |
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> * Virtual ethernet [ !! ] |
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> * Module vmnet is not loaded. Please verify that it is loaded |
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> before [ !! ] |
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> * running this script. [ !! ] |
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> The configuration of VMware Server 1.0.5 build-80187 for Linux for |
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> this running kernel completed successfully. |
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> Given the "module vmnet" message, I've run "emerge --oneshot |
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> vmware-modules" and verified that /lib/modules/2.6.25-gentoo-r4/misc |
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> has new versions of vmmon.ko and vmnet.ko. When I run "modprobe |
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> vmnet", it reports: |
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> FATAL: Error inserting vmnet |
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> (/lib/modules/2.6.25-gentoo-r4/misc/vmnet.ko): Invalid module |
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> format |
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> What detail am I missing about building vmnet.ko ?? |
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I have various vmware module problems, and there are a number of tweaks |
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I try when I get to a brick wall: |
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sometimes just `rm /etc/vmware/not_configured` is enough, but given you |
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can't load it manually, maybe not! |
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try both: |
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/etc/init.d/vmware stop |
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/etc/vmware/init.d/vmware stop |
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and make sure all vm* modules are unloaded. |
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run vmware-config, but say no to everthing. Then start start the vmware |
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init.d service, see if it works. (don't run vmware). |
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stop vmware, run vmware-config again, and then add in your options. |
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Start the vmware service again... and cross your fingers :) |
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There might also be some useful messages in dmesg, or syslog (can't |
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remember where they go) about why the module isn't loading - perhaps |
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there's a deprecated kernel option you have to compile in? |
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HTH, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. |
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-- Elbert Hubbard |
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