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Some people asked me about problems while installing VMWare, because we don't have init directories in the rc0-6.d style, so here is a little workaround:
cd /etc
ln -s rc.d rc{0,1,2,3,4,6}.d
/path/to/vmware-install/vmware-installer.pl #<--- install your vmware
rm -rf /etc/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}.d # take care with this, a typo could delete a lot of important filesalso u should have installed the pcitools with pacman : pacman -Sy pciutils
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hmmm strange for me this won't werk, i posted this without testing....
instead of
ln -s rc.d rc{0,1,2,3,4,6}.djust do
for a in `seq 0 5`; do ln -s rc.d rc$a.d; donenothing,
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due some demand here are some more _very_ usefull hints for installing vmware on a 2.6.1 kernel:
get those:
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-config.pl.diff
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-an … e43.tar.gz
-- first execute vmware-uninstall.pl to make sure there is no conflict
- then create the directories as described above....
- start the vmware-installer.pl script...
- u can take all default values except the last one: you will be asked where the startscript should be placed ( this must NOT be /etc because there is already a dir called vmware ), so choose /etc/vmware
- then decline when u will be asked if u wanna execute vmware-config.pl
- apply the patch to /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl ( if it won't patch then the file is already patched)
- untar the other file u downloaded and run the runme.pl script...
- then u will have /lib/modules/2.6.1/misc/vmmon.o and vmnet.o, rename them to vmnet.ko and vmmon.ko
- make a symlink from /dev/vmmon to /dev/misc/vmmon
- load the module "rtc" and also symlink it from /dev to /dev/misc
- maybe create symlinks for dsp and mixer from /dev/ /dev/sound
now u should be able to run vmware without any problems, hoppe this helps....
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As some people still having problems building the necassary modules, i uploaded mine:
step by step install :
cd /lib/modules/2.6.1
wget http://file.dariball.de/mods.tgz
tar xvzf mods.tgz
depmod -athe modules should now be loadable with modprobe ....
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sometimes VMWare still refuses to configure, no matter if the modules are there or not, then just remove the /etc/vmware/not_configured file and start vmware, the it should work fine ( don't forget to start up the vmware modules before)
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If I download the latest version of VMWare from vmware.com, do I need to apply these patches? What do these patches do? Are these patches to support the 2.6.1 kernel?
When I run the runme.pl, I get a message about a missing "lsmod". Since the patch step seems to fail, I wonder if that is why.
I'm mostly curious what the patch does.
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due some demand here are some more _very_ usefull hints for installing vmware on a 2.6.1 kernel:
get those:
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-config.pl.diff
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-an … e43.tar.gz-- first execute vmware-uninstall.pl to make sure there is no conflict
- then create the directories as described above....
- start the vmware-installer.pl script...
- u can take all default values except the last one: you will be asked where the startscript should be placed ( this must NOT be /etc because there is already a dir called vmware ), so choose /etc/vmware
- then decline when u will be asked if u wanna execute vmware-config.pl
- apply the patch to /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl ( if it won't patch then the file is already patched)
- untar the other file u downloaded and run the runme.pl script...
- then u will have /lib/modules/2.6.1/misc/vmmon.o and vmnet.o, rename them to vmnet.ko and vmmon.ko
- make a symlink from /dev/vmmon to /dev/misc/vmmon
- load the module "rtc" and also symlink it from /dev to /dev/misc
- maybe create symlinks for dsp and mixer from /dev/ /dev/soundnow u should be able to run vmware without any problems, hoppe this helps....
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