Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[Kenneth Schneider <suselist@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 00:37, Tim Hanson wrote:
> I certainly wish SUSE and VMWare would get together and solve the
> problems getting them to work together.  I have followed all the
> instructions both on the SUSE db and and the VMWare troubleshooting
> site, and I can't VMWare 4 to run on SUSE.  The latest attempt ended
> with vmware-config.pl aborting when I followed the SUSE advice on
> vmmon.o.
> 
> This is getting silly.  I depend on VMWare to run some Windows programs
> with no Linux substitutes.  For now, I'm running it only on one of my
> laptops with 8.2 installed.  This is a royal pain.
> 

This is a royal pain.

A previous poster gave this suggestion which worked for my desktop and
laptop.

install the -144 kernel (no need to reboot)

copy the vm* modules someplace safe

install the -166 kernel

copy the vm* modules to the misc directory

if the not-configured file exists in /etc/vmware delete it

reboot and you should have a running vmware.

PS. good to have this list back after the open relay problem was fixed.

-- 
Ken Schneider
unix user since 1989
linux user since 1994
SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)