VMware Workstation in F11 [really SOLVED]

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 20:11 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 16:49 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 07:39 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> > 
> > 	I installed VMware on F11 and the patch and it started fine for me, but when
> >         I tried to install WinXP as a guest OS my system locked up solid.  By
> >         default vmware looks for files in ~./vmware if you moved it and didn't
> >         change the config you'll get this error.  I also get the errors shown below
> >         during the install.
> >         
> > I did not move the files--they are still in a subdirectory of ~/vmware.
> > 
> > I don't recall if there were errors, but I will re-install and try
> > again.
> 
> Sorry for the dup.  I reinstalled and started vmware as root to get
> modules built (instead of the command-line command suggested in the
> patch script).  This time, it worked.

It worked because it was running as root (so that it could build the
modules.  This VM is a raw disk one, and I needed write access to the
raw disks.  I added my userid to the disk group and now it works (except
it seems to hang on shutdown, but that's a problem for another day).

Used to be that I got an informative error message when this happened,
about not having write access to the raw disk.  Not sure why that's no
longer the case.
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs