Haldaemon and Vmware [SOLVED, maybe]

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 17:43 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Cyber Source wrote:
> 
> > I have the same relationship problem with haldaemon and vmware, that's
> > why I posted originally. I initially thought it was a timing sequence
> > thing on boot, it says it is starting haldaemon but when I check after
> > it boots up, it's not running. If I restart haldaemon after the pc comes
> > up, all is ok to reboot the machine, no hangs. However, I cannot shut
> > the pc down, then it hangs. I then noticed that there is no script for
> > vmware in rc.0, so I made a link for vmware in rc.0 and it can then shut
> > down but then hangs at the end (shuts all down but  does not power off).
> > This only happens with AMD cpus and can then be corrected with acpi=off
> > in the grub line, not needed with Intel cpus, or so I have seen.  Bitter
> > sweet  when the new releases come out, exciting and yet a pain to work
> > out the bugs, lol.
> 
> So far, it is working after the following steps:
> 
> (1) Install VMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848.i386.rpm.  Do *not* install
> vmware-any-any-update84.
> 
> (2) Run vmware-config.pl to build modules for the running kernel.

Don't forget to "cp -p /dev/vm* /etc/udev/devices" after doing this for
the first time.

> (3) Run "chkconfig vmware reset" to create the proper symlinks.
> 
> (4) Things appear to work (so far).  Note that "service vmware status"
> lies about whether vmmon and vmnet modules are insmodded, but
> functionality doesn't appear to be affected.
> 
> So the problem appears to have been in both the original RPM (improper
> symlinks) and the update84 (something else broken).  I'll report back if I
> see any more problems, otherwise, I think it's solved.  I'll see what
> VMware newsgoups have to say about fixing the next update.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>