Can't run VMWare 4.5.2 in Hoary

Timothy Ha linuxmail at yandex.ru
Fri Nov 26 21:02:27 UTC 2004


No, it runs and creates a new virtual machine. But when I click "start" 
for the virtual machine, it does nothing. No debug message, too.

What is going on with it?
Thanks.

Timothy Ha wrote:

> I downloaded the vmware-any-any patch .84 release
>
> 1) installed vmware newly
> 2) installed the patch by running sudo ./runme.pl from the patch's folder
> 3) sudo rm /etc/vmware/not_configured
>
> 4) RUN vmware successfully.
>
> Timothy
>
> Timothy Ha wrote:
>
>> I have updated from Warty to Hoary. Downloaded VMWare 4.5.2 and 
>> installed it.
>>
>> But vmware-config.pl can't compile the vmmon modules. I downloaded 
>> build-essential, kernel-headers-2.6.8-1-386 and -686 by Synaptic from 
>> repos (hoary and hoary-universe...) but at the compilation it says 
>> that kernel is currently 2.6.8-3-386 and even if the module will be 
>> built, it won't load into the current kernel.
>>
>> What can I do to have VMWare running?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> P.S: I have read about patch to /etc/init.d/vmware to have udev working.
>>
>
>





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