On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:22:04 -0700 Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/17/06, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It sounds like you have a working vmware-server environment. If so, > > where are your copies of vmmon.ko and vmnet.ko located and are they > > referenced in modules.alias? Also, any additional thoughts on what > > I should be looking at/for to solve the modprobe issue? > > ~ > uname -r > 2.6.19-gentoo-r1 > > ~ > find /lib/modules/ | grep -e vmmon -e vmnet > /lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r1/misc/vmmon.ko > /lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r1/misc/vmnet.ko > > ~ > grep -e vmmon -e vmnet /lib/modules/`uname -r`/* > /lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r1/modules.dep:/lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r1/misc/vmnet.ko: > /lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r1/modules.dep:/lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r1/misc/vmmon.ko: > /lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r1/modules.symbols:alias > symbol:VMX86_RegisterMonitor vmmon > > Try insmod'ing the drivers manually: > > insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/vmmon.ko > > Also, the output of dmesg might hold some clue. > > -Richard
Good info! "uname" and "find" show you and I are running the same kernel and have the modules in the same places. Running insmod for vmmon and vmnet gets them installed and output from "/etc/init.d/vmware start" indicated success. However running ".../vmware status" immediately afterwards says vmware has stopped. Looking at dmesg I suspect the following is the key: vmware-start: Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 failed Since .config contains "# CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set" I do believe I know the cause of _this_ problem. Just to be sure, my next (newbie) question is "Is bridged networking the the right option to choose?" Thanks. David To ask a question of ignorance, does -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
