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archiebald

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Registered: 2007-06-03

Posts: 90

[SOLVED]VMware player - daemon rc.conf, module problem

Is it possible to activate wmvare daemon in rc.conf daemons section?

The thing is, I need to manually activate wmware daemon with /etc/rc.d/wmvare.d/wmvare start, to get network working, else I get

Could not connect Ethernet0 to virtual network "/dev/vmnet8

VMware uses SysV init style, I think, and that is why usual daemon method in rc.conf, doesn't work.

Do I need some symlink or something?

Now, if I restart computer, manually start vmware daemon I get:

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

Then I stop vmware daemon:

Stopping VMware services:
   VMware USB Arbitrator                                               done
   VM communication interface socket family                            done
   Virtual machine communication interface                             done
   Virtual machine monitor                                             done
   Blocking file system                                                done

and again start:

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                                                    done
   Shared Memory Available                                             done

btw. in modules section I put: vmmon vmci

Last edited by archiebald (2010-02-08 12:56:16)

mcsilva

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2009-12-16

Posts: 95

Re: [SOLVED]VMware player - daemon rc.conf, module problem

I wrote those two walkthrough some time ago:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88103
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88173

Maybe they can help you.

archiebald

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Registered: 2007-06-03

Posts: 90

Re: [SOLVED]VMware player - daemon rc.conf, module problem

I wrote those two walkthrough some time ago:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88103
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88173

Maybe they can help you.

Thank you very much.:D
That was exactly what I was looking for. But there is also other way. You can edit /etc/rc.local, and there put:

/etc/rc.d/vmware.d/vmware start

.