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nticompass

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VMware Player 3.1.4 cannot start network on 2.6.38

I installed VMware player 3.1.4 on Arch Linux running kernel 2.6.38.  I ran "sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all" and everything compiled fine.

The final output was:

Starting VMware services:
   VMware USB Arbitrator                                               done
   Virtual machine monitor                                             done
   Virtual machine communication interface                             done
   VM communication interface socket family                            done
   Blocking file system                                                done
   Virtual ethernet                                                   failed
Unable to start services

I took a look at "/var/log/vnetlib", and found the following:

May 04 23:00:01 VNLFileExists - Cannot check for file or directory: /etc/vmware/networking , error: No such file or directory
May 04 23:00:01 VNLNetCfgLoad - Import file does not exist
May 04 23:00:01 VNL_Load - Error loading the vnet configuration, file used: /etc/vmware/networking
May 04 23:00:01 VNLNetCfgUnload - Requested cache is not loaded

I looked, and sure enough "/etc/vmware/networking" does not exist.

I cannot find any help with this anywhere.  The patches I found were for 2.6.36 and 2.6.37, and did not seem to work.