Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

[fountai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Derek Fountain)]

Vmware runs setuid as root, which means it takes full root
priviledges as it runs. It can do anything it likes, and so
crashes that much harder when it goes down. It's crashed my
machine a few times.

Are you starting vmware with a preconfigured virtual
machine? If so, it's possible that the files have become
corrupted. Does vmware start OK if you don't load a virtual
machine config file? If so that just about confirms your
problem. I trust you have a functioning backup?

> I have a strange problem with VMWARE. I'm runnning SuSE 6.4 with all
> standard packages except for the xshared packaged which I downloaded from
> SuSE to cure the Netscape crashing problem. Now, every time I do click
> Power On in VMWARE the whole machine freezes, and I have to switch off,
> with the compulsory fsck at reboot on all partitions. I've never seen
> Linux, or any Unix, freeze like this. Any ideas?


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