Vmware in arch

Luis Sousa · 2009-11-23 20:33:14

Hello everyone, i recently installed vmware workstation 7 on arch, it went very smoothly... My goal was to open a xp machine, but it has several problems. Although the xp machine boots up, i have no network card on xp, but it is installed on device manager and vmware also detected and bridged it... Cant seem to get it to work, and dont know what to do, i used to had ubuntu and vmware, and it worked like a charm, internet on xp machine, etc... Therefore i think arch lacks some configuration elsewhere?

spookykid · 2009-12-04 20:07:05

Hi, I have the same problem, must be something to do with the patches i've applied to get vmware to compile the modules. I have Linux 2.6.31 with vmware server 2.

shock · 2009-12-05 10:30:49

I have vmware workstation 6 installed on arch, didn't find this problem.Perhaps issue with VMware 7.

spookykid · 2009-12-07 20:18:49

It's VMWare Server 2.0.2, and I've followed the updated Wiki and it doesn't work. The patches fail to apply.

Using http://blog.mymediasystem.net/uncategor … la-x86_64/ it works (even for x86_32), but can't really have bridged network between my machine and my VM.

Last edited by spookykid (2009-12-07 20:26:54)

Luis Sousa · 2009-12-12 16:38:48

Been away for a while, but kinda solved the problem... Created a new vmachine and installed XP from scratch, it worked fine and have all up and running now. Strangely, the image that didnt work on Arch also broke down on Ubuntu, so i believe that there is an error somewhere in that image... Only kickback i found is that it doesnt allow me to run vmware/vmplayer as user, it requires sudo...

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#1 2009-11-23 20:33:14

Vmware in arch

#2 2009-12-04 20:07:05

Re: Vmware in arch

#3 2009-12-05 10:30:49

Re: Vmware in arch

#4 2009-12-07 20:18:49

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#5 2009-12-12 16:38:48

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