FC3 with VMware hangs on shutdown

[Marcel J.E. Mol]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:50:22AM -0500, David Wolinski wrote:
> Hello,
> 	I successfully installed VMware-workstation-4.5.2-8848 on FC3 following
> the tips in the FC3 Release Notes (below).  However, when I try to
> shutdown the machine, the shutdown process hangs at the following
> console message:
> 
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for vmnet1 to become free. Usage count = 1
> 
> (My virtual machine uses both the vmnet1 and vmnet8 network interfaces.)
> 
> Can anyone please explain what's going on or suggest a solution?

Same here. VMware in itself runs fine (although i did not use the any-any
pach). 
When I 'service vmware stop' before running shutdown the machine shuts down
nicely.

-Marcel

> 
> Thanks - Dave
> 
> -------------------------------
> 
> Clipped from FC3 Release Notes:
> 
>      o You must upgrade the kernel modules and configuration using the
>        unofficial vmware-any-any-* toolkit available from:
> 
>        [5]http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/
> 
>      o After vmware-config.pl is run and the VMware modules are loaded,
> the
>        following command creates the /sys/class/* nodes needed for udev:
> 
>        cp -rp /dev/vm* /etc/udev/devices/
> 
> 
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