Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 October 2010 22:02:32 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 19:05 on Monday 25 October 2010, Neil > Bothwick > > did opine thusly: > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:55:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > Not what you asked for, but my advise is to upgrade to a newer ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
Have you tried 2.6.34? FWIW i use gentoo-sources. I have no useful ideas at this point - beyond my level. Have you tried running it with strace to establish what its doing just before it dies? Does ldd show any missing libs? malloc = Memory ALLOCation

[gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
Adam Carter gmail.com> writes: > > My principle for using vmware on Gentoo is; use the latest vmware, do not use the latest kernel.I'm using Workstation 7.1.2, which works well with 2.6.34, also works with 2.6.35 (but wants to rebuild one kernel module every time it runs, which I havent tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:05 on Monday 25 October 2010, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:55:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Not what you asked for, but my advise is to upgrade to a newer version > > of Workstation :P 7.1.2 is the current version (and it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:55:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Not what you asked for, but my advise is to upgrade to a newer version > of Workstation :P 7.1.2 is the current version (and it's in the > "vmware" overlay.) $100+tax is a lot to pay to upgrade something you only use sporadically.

[gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/25/2010 08:37 AM, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, looking for some serious vmware debugging help! I've had vmware-workstation working for ages, but sometime this year (ok I use it sporadically!) it's stopped. I don't know if its the old GTK issue or what. No google searches has found anythi