Hello All, I've just installed workstation 6.5, and all went well, and runs accept the virtual network. I had no errors on the emerges, but the startup script errors on virtual network, and no device (/dev/vmnet0 in this case) is created. Am I doing something wrong in my install/setup? Or is this a different bug? I've done some googling and searching bugzilla/forums, but haven't found the answer. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: /etc/init.d/vmware start Actual Results: /etc/init.d/vmware start * Starting VMware services: [ ok ] * Virtual machine monitor [ ok ] * Virtual machine communication interface [ ok ] * Blocking file system [ ok ] * Virtual ethernet [ !! ] I'll leave it at this level for now so I can help debug.
Ok, some more info. Linux peri 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 #2 SMP Thu Nov 20 10:32:19 MST 2008 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.5 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ Timestamp of tree: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -msse3 " CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -msse3 " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tera-byte.com/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay /usr/portage/local/layman/sabayon /usr/portage/local/layman/xen /usr/portage/local/layman/voip /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects /usr/portage/local/layman/games /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnowext X a52 aac acl alsa amd64 berkdb bjtools cli cracklib crypt cups curl dlloader dmraid doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread emacs-w3 esd evo exif faad fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran g15 gdbm gnome gpm gsm gtk iconv ifp ip4100 isdnlog jack java javascript jpeg kde live lm_sensors lvmstatic mad midi mikmod mmx mozilla mpeg mudflap nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt qtaudio quicktime readline reflection rtc securid sensord session sndfile sox spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb vcd vorbis xanim xine xinerama xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard evdev mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia fbdev vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS emerge -pv vmware-modules These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 0 kB [1] Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware
Can you re-run "emerge --config vmware-workstation" as it mentions at the end of the build? This is is supposed to setup the networking back to default for you, and you should then be able to run the virtual network manager (as root) to configure the network as you want. If running that has no effect, then we'll have to dig a little deeper, so please let us know whether it was successful or not...
That took care of it. I normally read the stuff at the end of a emerge. I guess I'm turning into a slacker noob :(
