I have emerged vmware-workstation 5.5.0.18463. Go to >Edit>Preferences, and select the memory tab. Attempt to set reserved memory to any different value, then click OK. I was getting a file permission issue on /etc/vmware/config. I believe the steps to fix this would be to do this in the ebuild: chgrp vmware /etc/vmware chmod g+w /etc/vmware chmod g+w /etc/vmware/config Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See 'details' section. 2. 3. Actual Results: Things worked as expected.
Unfortunately, this file is written by vmware-config.pl and if we set it to be writable, it is set not to be by vmware-config.pl, so making changes to the ebuild won't help there. If you want to look through vmware-config.pl and write a patch to make it group-writable in there, I can make the group ownership change, since it doesn't remove the old file, the group stays the same.
Created attachment 74397 [details, diff] Patch attached. Attached is a patch to set /etc/vmware/config to mode 664 with group ownership 'vmware'. I just tested it and it seems ok.
What version of VMware Workstation is this against? I would bet that it will work on them all, but I'd prefer err on the side of caution for now.
Nevermind... I'm blind
Ficed in CVS... thanks for the patch!
To confirm: are you planning to do something like 'chgrp vmware /etc/vmware; chmod 775 /etc/vmware' in the ebuild? I believe you still need that because vmware will attempt to write a temporary lock file inside /etc/vmware. My patch did not address this.
Yes, that was done.
