vmware blues

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:26:53AM +1000, david wrote:
> Installing vmware on feisty:
> 
> sudo apt-get install vmware-server
> 
> everything installs fine, but when I try to "power up" it says: error,
> and stops!
> 
> I tried to install from tar-ball, but it didn't like my headers. 
> It wanted linux-headers-386 (from memory) but I
> have /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-15-386/ which evidently isn't good
> enough :(
> 
> Then I looked at re-installing from apt-get and noticed that apt-get
> insists on vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.20-16 although i'm running
> 2.6.20-15  ...... maybe that's why it won't power up?

Perpahs you've upgraded your kernel to 2.6.20-16 but haven't rebooted
yet?  That could explain why vmware is unable to start.

Marius Gedminas
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