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In my experience, VMware breaks very easily when changing the kernel or upgrading VMware.
]]>Unfortunately, I don't offhand know of anywhere off the vmware site that hosts the download directly.
]]>alias char-major-10-165 vmmon
So for me it seems that the module is (or not) loaded but where? :cry:
Anyway I didn't want to register so that's why I tried this rpm package.It's funny but for windows you can download the same thing from different pages without registration. If you would know about source for download without registration please let me know.
Thank you.
]]>Could not open /dev/vmmon:No such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module 'vmmon' is loaded
For an unsupported distro like arch, you have to manually create the kernel modules vmmon and vmnet. Get the tarball installer from the vmware web site, and follow the instructions for the tarball installation. And when you finish that, add this line to /etc/devfsd.conf so that it will work with devfs (which arch uses):
LOOKUP ^vmnet([0-9])$ EXECUTE mknod /dev/vmnet1 c 119 1
http://www.rocklinux.org/70.html
Just try not to get distracted with Rock Linux ;-)
]]>and then:
[root@myhost ~]# /etc/rc.d/vmware start
bash: /etc/rc.d/vmware: No such file or directory
I think that the rpm package that I have was somehow optimalized for Fedora or Suse.
Could be something else as well but it's out of my knowledge which is related to linux quite small yet :cry: But I'm learning that's why I'm very thankfull for everyone who responds to my requests for help.
/etc/rc.d/vmware start
which loaded the needed modules. If the scripts isn't there, just load the modules manually with
modprobe vmmon
and so on. There are several modules so you'll have to modprobe them one by one.
]]> Could not open /dev/vmmon:No such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module 'vmmon' is loaded.
Failed to initialize monitor device.
These two messages I recieved when I tried to install win into it.
If someone would know how to solve it please post a reply.
Finally again thank to you all.
]]>rpmunpack vmware.rpm
that sticks it out to a cpio.gz file then:
gunzip vmware.cpio.gz
move the new .cpio file to / and then:
cpio --extract --make-directories < vmware.cpio
and that will install it
]]>Merry Christmas
]]>I knew that it wouldn't be so easy :cry:
[root@myhost ~]# pacman -Sy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
:: current is up to date
:: extra is up to date[root@myhost ~]# pacman -S rpm2targz
rpm2targz: not found in sync dbSomething went wrong?
I forgto to mention the rpm2targz isn't in Arch's "regular" repos, it's in one of the TUR's.
Check the TUR's to find the package and add the appropriate server to your pacman.conf. Then update pacman's db and try again.
]]>[root@server:~]# pacman -Ss rpm
extra/rpmunpack 0-1
This program converts rpm archives to cpio archives for cpio or afio
[root@server:~]# pacman -Ss cpio
current/cpio 2.5-4
A tool to copy files into or out of a cpio or tar archive
extra/rpmunpack 0-1
This program converts rpm archives to cpio archives for cpio or afio
[root@server:~]# pacman -Sy rpmunpack cpio
Enjoy.
I don't remember seeing "rpm2targz" in the repos.
P.S. "pacman -Ss smth" searches for "smth" in the descriptions/names of the packages in the db
]]>[root@myhost ~]# pacman -Sy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
:: current is up to date
:: extra is up to date
[root@myhost ~]# pacman -S rpm2targz
rpm2targz: not found in sync db
Something went wrong?
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