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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