F10 Snap 3, VMware Workstation 6.5, and ThinkPad T400

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 09:00 +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Right that's most likely it. Make sure you have 'kernel-devel' present, 
> and 'gcc'. Also,  is this Workstations 6.5 build 118166 ?

OK - I'll come clean on a little more with this:

* Linux Version: F10 Snap 3 x86_64 with latest rawhide patches (adding
more as I write this)
* VMware Version: VMware Workstation 6.5, 64-bit, build 118166 (the
production version), installed using the new .bundle package since
VMware now prefers this to the RPM according to the beta communities,
release notes, and other documentation
* Relevant Packages installed: kernel-devel, kernel-headers, all
standard development tools and libraries (which includes all of the gcc
stuff)

Including the above packages is standard procedure for me on every Linux
install, regardless of distro used. The extra disk space is absolutely
worth it as you never know when some application out there will require
a so-called development package, but that's a different debate...

Also, Workstation 6.5 will ask for root privileges anytime it needs to
re-compile modules (like when the kernel updates). There is no need to
specifically switch user to root before doing this. It's not confusing
at all (other than perhaps darkening the screen and asking for the root
password is an obvious hack on Vista).

I've been running VMware workstation since the first public betas of
version 1.0 back in 1999, so I do know a thing or two about it. :) I
posted here because there was nothing of substance yet on the VMware
Community sites dealing with F10 Snap 3. I figured someone here had at
least run into this.

I'll find the answer eventually. When I do, I'll post here. Otherwise,
keep ideas flowing...

Cheers,

Chris


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