F10 Snap 3, VMware Workstation 6.5, and ThinkPad T400

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 15:04:59 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 09:45 +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
> 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.

Interesting, I hadn't known that.

> 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.

vmware-config also had to be run under root of course.

poc




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