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triplesquarednine

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Registered: 2011-04-12

Posts: 630

Re: [solved] VMWare won't start

Nice to see you got it sorted out

And not this matters (at this point), but as far as loading vmware modules (or any kernel module) individually ~ It is really simple;

sudo modprobe *modulename*

As far as Vmware module names, they are as follows; vmci, vmnet, vmmon, vsock, vmblock

there have been a few occasions, in the past, where i have loaded them manually as part of trouble-shooting issues.

cheerz

Lockheed

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Registered: 2010-03-16

Posts: 1,521

Re: [solved] VMWare won't start

VMware worked fine, but it now stopped and I have the heave's problem, except his solution doesn't work for me. Here's the problem:

$ sudo rc.d start vmware
Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                            failed
   Virtual machine communication interface                            failed
   VM communication interface socket family                           failed
   Blocking file system                                                done
   Virtual ethernet                                                   failed
   VMware Authentication Daemon                                        done

Also

$ sudo modprobe vmmon
ERROR: could not insert 'vmmon': Exec format error

Last edited by Lockheed (2012-04-18 18:07:56)

heaven

Member

Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 32

Re: [solved] VMWare won't start

VMware worked fine, but it now stopped and I have the heave's problem, except his solution doesn't work for me. Here's the problem:

$ sudo rc.d start vmware
Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                            failed
   Virtual machine communication interface                            failed
   VM communication interface socket family                           failed
   Blocking file system                                                done
   Virtual ethernet                                                   failed
   VMware Authentication Daemon                                        done

Also

$ sudo modprobe vmmon
ERROR: could not insert 'vmmon': Exec format error

I had just the same issue (see my latest comment on previous page). And now also just updated wmvare to 8.0.3 and problem happens again.
This is what I did:

1: Downloaded this patch:
http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/ … 320.tar.gz

2: Opened patch-modules_3.2.0.sh in text editor and updated vmware version from 8.0.2 to 8.0.3

3:

sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/vmware /etc/rc.d/
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/vmware-workstation-server /etc/rc.d/

4:

$ sudo /etc/rc.d/vmware start
Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                            failed
   Virtual machine communication interface                            failed
   VM communication interface socket family                           failed
   Blocking file system                                                done
   Virtual ethernet                                                   failed
   VMware Authentication Daemon                                        done

5:

sudo perl -p -i -e 's|/sbin/(?!modprobe)|/usr/bin/|g' /etc/rc.d/vmware
sudo sed -i "s|/sbin/|/usr/bin/|g" /usr/bin/vmware
sudo sed -i "s|/sbin/|/usr/bin/|g" /usr/bin/vmplayer

6:

$ sudo /etc/rc.d/vmware start                                           
Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                             done
   Virtual machine communication interface                             done
   VM communication interface socket family                            done
   Blocking file system                                                done
   Virtual ethernet                                                    done
   VMware Authentication Daemon                                        done
   Shared Memory Available