On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 01:55 +0700, Masim "Vavai" Sugianto wrote:

Hi,

Just to make a clarification due to this thread (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-10/msg00882.html) and this one (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-10/msg00873.html). Subject is about "Installing VMWare WS ver 5.5.1 into OpenSUSE 10.3". Installation process finished without problem but launched "/usr/bin/vmware" produced an error :

vmware: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.

Note : VMWare WS ver 5.5.1 worked very well under OpenSUSE 10.2.

Run the following command : "export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=true" as mentioned in OpenSUSE WIKI (http://en.opensuse.org/Xlib.lock) didn't successfull.

For those who have same problem, solution should be an easy way :

1. Upgrade your VMWare into ver 5.5.5. VMWare 5.5.1 serial valid for 5.5.5 2. Download vmware-any-any-update from http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/. I take vmware-any-any-update114.tar.gz 3. Installing your VMWare ver 5.5.5 4. Run your vmware-any-any-update (extract and invoke ./runme.pl)

I've wrote a complete steps in my blog, http://www.vavai.net/index.php?/archives/18-Installing-VMWare-Ver-5.5-.X-on-...

Sorry for this link. I'm not a splogger ;-).

Rui Santos has notified this solution in these thread before but another replies said that it can't be applied to OpenSUSE 10.3.

Regards,

Vavai http://www.vavai.com/blog

I ran workstation this way on 10.3 64bit and the first time I shutdown my windows workstation it did something to the virtual disk and that version of the virtual windows was broken beyond usage. vmserver looked like it was going to work but it would not boot my windows machine for some reason. I have been running vmplayer on 10.3 and it is working nicely. although the sound gets pretty bad at times.