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Luis Q. R.

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Registered: 2003-02-20

Posts: 106

Vmware

After rebooting, I always have to run vmware-config.pl because if I don't, Vmware can't find vmmon, vmnet, etc... I found this in another site and I wrote it in the devfsd.conf file, but it doesn't work either:

# vmware monitor symlinking, so vmware finds it
REGISTER        ^misc/vmmon$    CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname vmmon
UNREGISTER      ^misc/vmmon$    CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink vmmon

# needed for vmware
REGISTER        ^vc/(.*)$       CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname tty1
UNREGISTER      ^vc/(.*)$       CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink tty1

rasat

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From: Finland, working in Romania

Registered: 2002-12-27

Posts: 2,293

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Re: Vmware

There is a similar topic. I hope it helps:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=322

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Markku

Luis Q. R.

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Registered: 2003-02-20

Posts: 106

Re: Vmware

No, it doesn't have anything to do with this.

rasat

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From: Finland, working in Romania

Registered: 2002-12-27

Posts: 2,293

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Re: Vmware

I only did a quick search with the search-engine at upper right cornet of this forum.
To get help with vmware I think will be limited on this forum same as what I had with win4lin year ago.

To continue finding the solution to your question, check with Gentoo forum or search on the net:
http://forums.gentoo.org/

If you succeed to setup your vmware, I recommend you to post a brief guideline for future reference. For win4lin there is a guideline:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=236

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Markku

xor

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2003-03-20

Posts: 73

Re: Vmware

Hi this should work.
To run you have to install pciutils package and either copy insmod from /bin/ to/sbin
or change the vmware startup script to point at /bin/insmod
also lsmod.old need to be in /sbin/

touch /etc/rc.d/mkvnet

paste this into /etc/rc.d/mkvnet

#!/bin/sh
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/misc/vmmon c 10 165
ln -s /dev/misc/vmmon /dev/vmmon
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/vmnet0 c 119 0
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/vmnet1 c 119 1
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/vmnet2 c 119 2
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/vmnet3 c 119 3
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/vmnet4 c 119 4
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/vmnet5 c 119 5
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/vmnet6 c 119 6
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/vmnet7 c 119 7
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/vmnet8 c 119 8
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/vmnet9 c 119 9
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/parport0 c 99 0
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/parport1 c 99 1
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/parport2 c 99 2
mknod --mode=0600 /dev/parport3 c 99 3

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Do mkvnet executable and add it to
"DAEMONS" line in /etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=(pcmcia network mkvnet)
note! it will try to create the devices when taking down the machine aswell, I can live with that ;-)

I do not know if next step is needed to be done exacly as I did, please try to do it
without "--compile" options to find out! (depending on kernelversion)

run vmware-install.pl and when asked to configure with vmware-configure.pl don't!
Instead go to vmware-configure.pl script and run it like this
"./vmware-configure.pl --compile" to setup vmwares modules
copy vmware from /etc/init.d to /etc/rc.d/ and add
vmware to "DAEMONS=(pcmcia network mkvnet vmware)
Reboot the machine and take a look into /dev and /dev/misc
all devices should now be there ok, vmware should also be started..
Now run vmware in your windowmanager.

Maybe or maybe not my machine is doing something to corrupt the modules and vmware complains about it,
"run vmware-configure.pl again" grrrr, just /etc/rc.d/vmware stop then delete /etc/vmware/not_configured file (or similar name, don't remember exacly, take a look in /etc/vmware/locations to find out the whole name), then /etc/rc.d/vmware start and it should be okey again.

/xor