Groundhog's Day w/VMware 4.5.2

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 09:47 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>>> I recently did a full reinstall of FC3 on my laptop. Now I have to run
>>> vmware-config.pl after every boot-up or VMware 4.5.2 will not start. Is
>>> anybody else seeing this behavior? Is it one of those SELinux things?
>>
>> No, it means you haven't done:
>>
>> # cp -rp /dev/vm* /etc/udev/devices
>>
>> after running vmware-config.pl for the first time.
>
> Paul,
>
> Thanks very much. I wonder why I couldn't find this tip in VMware's
> Knowledge Base...

Because VMWare 4.x isn't supported on FC3 or any of the recent platorms 
that use udev, perhaps.  The solution is more likely to be found in the 
VMware newsgroups.  See also 
http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update89.tar.gz, 
which takes care of this issue as well as some others (like building on 
2.6.11 kernels).

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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