F10 Snap 3, VMware Workstation 6.5, and ThinkPad T400

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 15:35 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 19:57 +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
> > Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > >
> > > kills X. Hopefully the accelerated drivers will work better...
> > > 
> > > I'm trying now to get VMware Workstation 6.5 up and running. It installs
> > > without incident from the Bundle file. The RPM doesn't. In both cases,
> > > Workstation simply refuses to start. Trying from the command line, I get
> > > messages back that several modules and services are not running. Does
> > > anybody have this working??? This is the next critical piece for me to
> > > solve...
> > 
> > You need to run vmware as root the first time, so it can compile its 
> > host-side kernel modules. Once that's done, quit and restart it.
> 
> No dice. I reinstalled and then ran as root the first time. Here's what
> I get as error messages back:
> 
> Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-5583.log
> modinfo: could not find module vmmon
> modinfo: could not find module vmnet
> modinfo: could not find module vmblock
> modinfo: could not find module vmci
> modinfo: could not find module vsock
> modinfo: could not find module vmmon
> modinfo: could not find module vmnet
> modinfo: could not find module vmblock
> modinfo: could not find module vmci
> modinfo: could not find module vsock
> 
> I don't seen an other errors at all. the old vmware-config.pl file is
> also not present.

vmware-config.pl is no longer part of Workstation in 6.5.  It should
reconfigure automatically when run as root after booting a new kernel.

> 
> Still searching for answers...

Do you have compilers installed?

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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