Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Ben Kevan <ben.kevan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 21 October 2008 03:46:30 am Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Did already somebody of you try (and succeed) to install / run vmware
> 6.5 workstation on a openSUSE 11.1 host?
>
> So far I get:
> - installation using RPM works (well, it only installs the bundle and
> starts the bundle install... so duh...)
> - starting vmware gives a segfault when it tries to startup
> -> Modules can't be built
>
> - I extracted all the modules in the modules/source folder, compiled
> them all manually... this works, EXCEPT for the module vsock, where I
> get 4 warnings and I won't be able to modprobe it later
> (The warnings are:
> WARNING:
> "VMCIDatagram_CreateHnd"
> [/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined! WARNING:
> "VMCIDatagram_DestroyHnd"
> [/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined! WARNING:
> "VMCI_GetContextID" [/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vsock-only/vsock.ko]
> undefined!
> WARNING:
> "VMCIDatagram_Send" [/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vsock-only/vsock.ko]
> undefined!
> )
>
> Anybody of you having more luck with this?
>
> Dominique

How were you trying to launch vmware? If as a regular user, then module 
building would fail. 

Do: 

kdesu vmware
or
gnomesu vmware

Depending on what DE you're in. 

This will launch and build.

I am running vmware on 2.6.27.2

Ben
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