Bug 143582 – VMware Workstation 5.5.2 is out

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description David Bosso 2006-08-11 08:42:18 UTC]

app-emulation/vmware-workstation & app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools (?) need bumps.

Release notes here:
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-08-22 12:58:14 UTC]

I've been working on them.  The thing is that new versions require more work than bumps, because the vmware-any-any-update releases no longer work on them.

[Comment 2 spiralvoice 2006-08-25 05:57:02 UTC]

bug #144685 is a duplicate of this bug

[Comment 3 spiralvoice 2006-08-25 05:58:26 UTC]

Any date, or ebuilds for testing, for the new release?
I need new support of

- Solaris x86 10, 10 Update 1, 32-bit, 64-bit

now present in WS 5.5.2

[Comment 4 Mike Auty (RETIRED) 2006-08-25 10:45:40 UTC]

*** Bug 144685 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-09-01 01:49:39 UTC]

*** Bug 145785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-09-03 13:15:08 UTC]

The new versions of vmware-player and vmware-workstation do not use the module sources from vmware-any-any-update104, but need to use their own internal modules.  This is actually why the ebuilds have not been bumped yet.  They require much greater changes than just the contents of a few variables.  I should be working on these ebuilds some more over the upcoming week, but work has me rather busy at this time.

[Comment 7 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-09-08 02:06:34 UTC]

*** Bug 146809 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-09-08 06:38:42 UTC]

*** Bug 146832 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Julian Phillips 2006-09-17 18:45:04 UTC]

Created attachment 97297 [details]
minimally modded vmware workstation ebuild

I got vmware workstation 5.5.2 up and running using this ebuild and a modified version of 002_all_pagebreak-detection-fix.patch.

this probably isn't the correct set of changes - but it worked for me ...

[Comment 10 Julian Phillips 2006-09-17 18:47:28 UTC]

Created attachment 97298 [details]
updated all_pagebreak-detection-fix for ebuild in comment#9

this is the updated patch referred to in comment#9

[Comment 11 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-09-18 09:36:28 UTC]

The new vmware-workstation requires vmware-modules 1.0.0.15?

[Comment 12 Mike Auty (RETIRED) 2006-09-18 10:46:36 UTC]

It wouldn't surprise me.  The codebase for the modules tends to be shared, and when one bumps the version number, all the next versions come out requiring that one.  It's just a pity the vmware-any-any builds don't keep up with the main versions...

We should try and get special dispensation from vmware to repackage the modules stand alone, so that people don't have to keep dragging in a huge (and potentially unnecessary) shared package just for the modules.  As long as the internal version number (which I think currently stands at 138) is the met, it should all work fine...

[Comment 13 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-09-26 18:43:04 UTC]

Yeah.  Having to download 100+MB of VMware Server to get Workstation working definitely sucks.

[Comment 14 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-09-28 11:25:39 UTC]

I have added this to portage, but it is still masked currently.  The *only* reason it is masked is because it is using vmware-modules-1.0.0.15, which downloads vmware server (100MB+) and I haven't thought up a better solution yet.