Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1532 mails)

[Richard Creighton <ricreig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Erik Jakobsen wrote:

> <snip>
>
> Hello Joe, and thanks for the info.
>
> The result:
>
> # depmod -a
> lajka3:~ # modprobe vmnet
> lajka3:~ # /etc/init.d/vmware start
> VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
> Unable to stop services for  VMware Workstation 
> What am I to do now ?.
Erik,  This may sound like a dumb question, but are you *sure* you are
running WORKSTATION version of VMWare?    That version is a not-for-free
version (which is certainly worth the money).   The correct version for
most hobbiest/home/non-commercial people would be VMWare-SERVER which is
free.   I made a very similar error to what I am seeing with your
problems and when I tried to stop the free version with my  newly
downloaded, updated WORKSTATION version, I got the exact same error
about not being able to stop Workstation....which is correct, it wasn't
running, the free version of SERVER was actually running so  of course
the script couldn't stop a version not running, hence the error.   This
*may* be your problem.   I   was so  bull-headed that at first, I
downloaded and installed the 'correct' workstation version....then my
key  wouldn't work.    Now, I had  paid for a workstation key earlier
but  I didn't qualify for the upgrade to the new version and I was
starting to get angry until I realized I should be angry at myself for
being so myopic.   If I had read the fine print, I'd have realized that
the features I wanted in my paid for version of an earlier version of
'workstation' were now contained in the free version now called
'server'.    

Richard
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