2d chance at Unity

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Apr 19 23:41:59 UTC 2011


On 04/19/2011 04:04 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 04/19/2011 03:20 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
...
>> [begin OT]
>> 
>> Sorry for OT and hijacking, but since you brought the VMWare subject,
>> how do you deal with the resident vmnet8 virtual board that generates
>> an enormous amount of messages at /var/log whenever VMWare is off?
>> 
>> Message n. 7 at
>> http://communities.vmware.com/thread/49350;jsessionid=A905D175FC22F0D4EDEC2196D2D1B374
>> among other things says "Sure, it will generate output in your log
>> files, but other than that, there's not really anything to worry
>> about" but I find it really annoying and have been "ifconfig vmnet8"
>> at every startup. I wonder if there's something more elegant to do.
>> 
>> [end OT]
> 
> Hi Lucio. I hadn't noticed these. I'll check the logs on the laptop when
> I reboot into Ubuntu & let you know what I find out.
> 
> Gary

Just booted to 10.10 & opened VMPlayer (3.1.4) and I don't see any of
those messages in /var/log/messages. Nada, Zaro, nothing. The link you
provided goes back to 2006, so I wonder if it's something from an older
version and/or the iptables (I've no firewall) issue. Sorry, can't help you.







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