F10 Snap 3, VMware Workstation 6.5, and ThinkPad T400

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Mon Oct 27 08:45:52 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 08:23 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
>> Trying from the command line, I get
>> messages back that several modules and services are not running.
> 
> Do you get this?:
> 
>         % vmware
>         vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
>         for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following
>         command:
>         /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.
>         
> If so, run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl (as root). Good luck though, recent
> vmware versions have variable results, at least on x86_64 (I ended up
> switching to VirtualBox).

As mentioned in another post, Workstations >= 6.5 no longer uses 
vmware-config.pl: the module building is directly integrated into the 
vmware executable. That has the drawback of having to run vmware as root 
  at least once to give it a chance to build the modules, which is 
confusing.




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