startin the script i have * Starting VMware services: [ ok ] * Virtual machine monitor [ !! ] * Virtual ethernet [ !! ] * Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ !! ] the problem seems with the network basically. i can deleted the "not_configured" empty file and start vmware, but with no network. all the vmware modules loads correctly, seems a problem with init scripts.
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Hi Patrizio, Could you please try running /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware start instead and see if you get any error messages that might indicate an issue? Also, knowing the exact version of vmware-workstation that you're using would be helpful... If you look in /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware and search for the text vmware_load_module(), you should find that the line below it uses either insmod or modprobe. Could you please copy that line in the bug as well? That should help us to figure out what's going on... 5:)
i tried of course the direct init script, now way that line contains insmod vmware_load_module() { /sbin/insmod -s -f "/lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/$1.o" || exit 1 exit 0 } vmware_unload_module() { if [ "`isLoaded "$1"`" = 'yes' ]; then /sbin/rmmod "$1" || exit 1 fi exit 0 }
i commented insmod, i put exit 0 and loaded manually the modules. scripts are ok now. i have problem with bridged network i have to investigate why now.... i don't have the vmnet0 interface in ifconfig output, i remember i had in the past. i'm using amd64 and version 6.
Hmmm, that's a little bit strange, since the version 6 ebuilds in the tree should all patch the init file to use modprobe instead. Could you please unmask and re-emerge workstation 6 from the main tree (not the overlay) and check whether insmod is still being used?
i installed it again 5 mins ago but i still have problems with the bridged network, i can't get vmnet0 in the ifconfig list and i have no networking for my machines... any idea?
Check which interface you're trying to bridge it with (it won't bridge with wireless adaptors very well). Also, check dmesg for any problems when loading or using the modules. Finally, if all else fails, cut down your LDFLAGS and CFLAGS to a more standard set and see if that helps the modules work better...
hi mike for the startup i just removed all /etc/vmware stuff seems ebuild didn't overwrite with new one. now startup is ok, no problem with modules. but i can't have the bridged network. i recompiled with no C/LD FLAGS at all but no vmnet running... /dev/vmmon[9981]: host clock rate change request 19 -> 83 sky2 eth1: disabling interface bridge-eth1: disabling the bridge bridge-eth1: disabled promiscuous mode bridge-eth1: down sky2 eth1: enabling interface sky2 eth1: ram buffer 0K bridge-eth1: enabling the bridge bridge-eth1: enabled promiscuous mode bridge-eth1: up looks ok... should i have the vmnet0 interface in ifconfig? i remember i add. i can force it with vmware-netif but no changes :( any idea?
Hiya, Just taking a quick look at my setup, even after the vmware service is started, I have no vmnet* devices showing up in ifconfig at all. You should find them in /dev/ though (although obviously not accessible with all the same tools). Even if you were to see them in ifconfig, I wouldn't expect you to see vmnet0 since it's the bridged interface, and probably shouldn't have an IP address or the need to configure it on the host box. It's not an endpoint. The other two I might've expected to see (and for vmware-server I believe I did used to see), but the best thing I can recommend is start the vmware machine and check if the bridging works...
i have 2 eth cards, eth0 is without ip and connected to an eth modem. eth1 is free. bridge is with eth1 ok i did several tests, i created a bridged and an host-to-host connection with different ips. on host-to-host it works perfectly, i can use the nat too. on the bridged i can't. using tcpdump -i eth1 i can see some netbios (yes i'm running a virtual win copy) packets, but when i try to ping that machine i see no packets going in the eth1 (the bridged net) when i use the vmnet1 (host-to-host) i can see all the traffic and it's all working. i have no idea why this is happening.
Hmmm, ok, this problem is getting beyond the realm of this bug. You might find more help on the Vmware Technology Network (VMTN). The only recommendations I can make at this point are to try are to make sure you have the simplest setup possible. Only one external network card up and that it's connected to another device of some kind. Then from inside the vmware guest, trying pinging the external address (being careful to make sure the packets on the guest, host and remote box aren't blocked). The fact that you're seeing netbios packets from the guest suggests that the bridging is actually working fine, and that's it's a different problem in the communications somewhere. Either way, I'm afraid I'm going to have to mark this bug as fixed, since it no longer appears to be an issue with the init script, which now appears to be working fine...
i do agree, close this. actually i got it running, it's a linux kernel issue. when eth1 has a physical plugged machine it's "enabled" for real and i see vmware traffic over. when the cable is off it's disabled. any idea to have it working always? (sorry for this OT)
I think the idea is that you'd never need to use the brigde unless something is connected to it (and that if you wanted to talk to the host machine, you might as well use the host-only connection). There are two possible ways around it. First is to make a little hardware device that the tx and rx connections of the ethernet port back in on each other. The ethernet driver will register a cable connected. Secondly, use the host only connection, and do the bridging in linux (whereby vmnet1 is bridged with eth1) using brctl but again that seems a little pointless unless you sometimes connect something into eth1. Hope that helps...
i alreayd tought about similar solutions but they are not acceptable for me. the only solution is to force the eth1 to be up.i hope i can do it via some ethtool, to script it otherwise i have to patch linux kernel.... i will ask on kml. Thanks so much for support, for any idea let's write on private email as it's becoming too OT for this bug.
