Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem

2006-12-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 18 December 2006 06:34, David Relson wrote: > 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 fol

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem

2006-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:48:37 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > 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?" > > I'm not sure...I do

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem

2006-12-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/17/06, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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?" I'm not sure...I don't have that set,

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem

2006-12-17 Thread David Relson
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

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem

2006-12-17 Thread Richard Fish
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

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem

2006-12-17 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:43:52 -0700 Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/17/06, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking in /lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r1 directory misc has newly > > built modules vmmon.ko and vmnet.ko > > You need to make sure that /usr/src/linux points to the configured > sour

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem

2006-12-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/17/06, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looking in /lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r1 directory misc has newly built modules vmmon.ko and vmnet.ko You need to make sure that /usr/src/linux points to the configured sources of your currently running kernel. Otherwise vmmon and vmnet will