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Hey Forum
just some perhaps foolish questions:
I have an Lenovo thinkpad X60 - Which I should use for work - BUT I would really like to run vmware - so I install Arch Linux totally from buttom and ended up with this problem.
After following the guide in wiki about installing vmware - I have tryed to use the guide - but keeps failing about building the vmmon module - I use the wrong C compiler - Allthough its says that I use a conpiler that to old - allthough I got the latest.
I have tryed to build the one from AUR - but I keeps failing after placing it into rc.conf ..
Cannot see the spedcial reasoin anywhere - unless it's becaurse i'm running the Kernel 2.6.21 ???
Could that be the problem - and what can I do with it.
Well I know there ain't much to work with but I cannot find anything specifict in the log files
Just getting better .... All the time
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Hi there,
Stupid question but wy on earth would you want to use VMWare ??
Half of the time those vmware modules wont build (as you have seen)
I am using VirtualBox it's 13 MB in size and OWNS VMware 3 times over in speed,
size and usability, it just works, is small and fast like hell.
Just my 2cp.
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VMware needs xinetd. So if you put it into the rc.conf file make sure that you have started xinetd first. Then, the package from AUR should work like a charm.
Todays mistakes are tomorrows catastrophes.
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I don't have the xinetd package and vmware 6 works for me
VMware 6 builds fine for me... I was using aurbuild and getting a nasty error about the vmware tar.gz file not existing while trying to install the vmware 6 package, then I realized that I had to manually download it and put it in the folder with the PKGBUILD...
I had a weird problem where vmware(version 5, dunno bout 6) kept complaining that it wasn't configured, and I had to delete some file (called not_conigured or something like that in /etc/vmware) to fix it.
virtualbox sounds interesting, though
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The Server needs it, Workstation does not. The OP stated, that he put it into the rc.conf which indicated, that he might be using VMware-Server.
Todays mistakes are tomorrows catastrophes.
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woops... my bad. I have workstation (I still need to put vmware in the daemons section of rc.conf though).
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