Hi, I am now getting:
"Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to connect to peer process." when I try to boot any guest OS. I have added myself to the vmware group, executed the vmware-config.pl script and even logged out and in again. Any ideas? Thanks, jules VMware version: vmware-workstation-5.0.0.13124-r2 VMware entries in /dev: omc-2 dev # ll | grep vm crw-rw---- 1 root vmware 10, 165 Sep 19 12:34 vmmon crw------- 1 root root 119, 0 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet0 crw------- 1 root root 119, 1 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet1 crw------- 1 root root 119, 2 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet2 crw------- 1 root root 119, 3 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet3 crw------- 1 root root 119, 4 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet4 crw------- 1 root root 119, 5 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet5 crw------- 1 root root 119, 6 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet6 crw------- 1 root root 119, 7 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet7 crw------- 1 root root 119, 8 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet8 crw------- 1 root root 119, 9 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet9 emerge --info: omc-2 ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 252 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.no/ http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aac aalib alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd fam fbcon foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imlib ipv6 java jpeg ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl symlink tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis xine xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list