I got 4.5.2 build 8848 working with 9.1 after running vmware-any-any-75! Well, not exactly... I still got the "not configured (correctly)" dialoque. But I didn't pull out my hair (mainly cuz I didn't have any left after all the past failures.) After many googles, I found this totally unrelated thread on the gentoo forum that ended with "I deleted the not_conigured file in /etc/vmware". I took a look and found it there, just an empty file created by vmware when error is encountered. Deleted it and boomb, started right up. Why, I dunno, but you'd think they would have that in the docs somewhere. Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA Information Security Engineer DP Solutions ---------------------------------------- If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. -- former White House cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke