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epic

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Registered: 2013-09-14

Posts: 6

[Solved] Problem installing VMWare workstation 10

Hi,
I'm unable to start vmware workstation 10

This is what I have

IArch Linux machine 3.10.10-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 30 11:30:06 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
VMware-Workstation-Full-10.0.0-1295980.x86_64.bundle

And this is what I did

Followed instructions on VMware Arch wiki

1. sudo chmod +x VMware-edition-version.release.architecture.bundle
2. sudo  ./VMware-edition-version.release.architecture.bundle --console
3. Accepted EULAs & Entered license key.
4. Created /etc/init.d/ directory ( as per installation ..it 'cannot be left empty' and I didnt know what else to replace it with)
5. Created /etc/systemd/system/vmware.service as per wiki
6. Also copied all the files from vmware-systemd.tar.gz to /etc/systemd/system/ directory 
7. Enabled  vmware.service & vmware.target services
8. Reboot
9. then  sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all --> error output
10. Started vmware workstation from the xfce menu  and got This error

Other outputs
systemctl --type=service output

Please help.

Last edited by epic (2013-09-15 00:32:03)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Problem installing VMWare workstation 10

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1322629 ?

epic

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Registered: 2013-09-14

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Problem installing VMWare workstation 10

Thank you so much karol!! Really fast reply
I had seen this post but somehow I missed that 'workaround'.. well I hope this post will be helpful to someone (like me).

Further changes I made :

edit  /etc/init.d/vmware   file
so

1. sudo vim /etc/init.d/vmware
2. In function vmwareStartVmci()   change vmwareLoadModule "$mod"   --> vmwareLoadModule "$vmci"
3. in function vmwareStartVsock() change vmwareLoadModule "$mod" --> vmwareLoadModule "$vsock"
4. in function vmwareStopVsock() change vmwareUnloadModule "$mod" -->   vmwareUnloadModule "$vsock" & isLoaded "$mod" --> isLoaded "$vsock"
5. in function vmwareStopVmci() change  vmwareUnloadModule "$mod" --> vmwareUnloadModule "$vmci"  & isLoaded "${mod} --> isLoaded "${vmci}
6. Reboot

Please add the [Solved] tag to this post.

Last edited by epic (2013-09-15 00:35:30)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Problem installing VMWare workstation 10

Please add the [Solved] tag to this post.

That's your job: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309 :-)

Also, when pasting configs, code or command output, please use [ code ] tags, not [ quote ] tags https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

like this

epic

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Registered: 2013-09-14

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Problem installing VMWare workstation 10

That's your job: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309 :-)

Done

and I think we cannot hightlight or embed (using  'b' bold or 'url' tags) inside the 'code' tag thats why  I chose quotes.

Last edited by epic (2013-09-15 00:50:28)