This post came at a good time. I had just installed vmplayer on my XP box at work so I could run Linux and have some real mail and news programs. So I decided to try it on gentoo. Emerged it and it wouldn't configure - kept whining it couldn't stop vmware - of course not it wasn't running.
I did what you suggested in the first post and got it to configure. I then did what you suggested here. However, when I do /etc/init.d/vmware the first time it did this: * Starting VMware services: [ ok ] * Virtual machine monitor [ !! ] * Virtual ethernet [ !! ] * Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ !! ] * Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) [ ok ] * Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) [ ok ] * NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 [ !! ] After that I get this when I try and start vmware. [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d # /etc/init.d/vmware start VMware Player is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command: /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl. If I run vmware-config.pl it complains it can't stop it. I even repeated the steps in your first post. Any ideas on what might be wrong? Thanks. On Sunday 15 January 2006 00:50, Halo0784 (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > well for /etc/init.d/vmware all it does is makes a pretty output to a call > to the /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware file > > but an append to my earlier post > > after following the instructions for the install created by the > vmware-config script we can use the following commands to clean up what > tweak we did > > mv /etc/init.d/old-vmware /etc/init.d/vmware > rc-update add vmware default > > now it is safe to reboot with the original gentoo script > > ive done this tweaked install on 3 systems so far and all have been 100% > safe and installed correctly infact im useing IE6 in a full windows xp > install running in vmware as i post this > > =) all with a very big smile to know that windows will no longer die when i > dont want it to > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/vmware-workstation-daemon-problem-t720417.html#a23866 >92 Sent from the gentoo-user forum at Nabble.com. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
