There does not seems to be an equivalent for /etc/init.d/vmware in case systemd is used. In result, networking doesn't work (even NAT). Reproducible: Always
This bug must block #448882
Units from https://github.com/akhuettel/systemd-vmware which are used in vmware-workstation ebuild seem to work without any modification.
(In reply to Serge Gavrilov from comment #2) > Units from > > https://github.com/akhuettel/systemd-vmware > > which are used in vmware-workstation ebuild seem to work without any > modification. But I cannot find: https://github.com/akhuettel/systemd-vmware/blob/master/vmware-authentication.service -> /usr/sbin/vmware-authdlauncher
FYI bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411901 discusses this too. If you know the command line to execute vmware-authdlauncher, you could add extra ExecStart and ExecStop lines to that vmware.service file attached to that bug.
Will CC the author of that unit files as maybe he know were you get that binary :|
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #5) > Will CC the author of that unit files as maybe he know were you get that > binary :| What's the holdup? Looking at the service files at github it seems that vmware-usb is started after vmware-authentication. That seems to be the only dependency on vmware-authentication. But that daemon is not part of vmware player. My conclusion would be, that a) the service files cannot be used without change b) the vmware-authentication service must be removed and the dependency to it replaced by something else. c) maybe, the dependency of vmware-usb on vmware-authentication is rubbish altogether and vmware-usb could also be started before vmware-authentication
Note: the good old init.d/vmware file (the one from vmware workstation) starts the vmware-usbarbitrator even before any kernel modules (vmmon vmci vsock vmblock vmnet) are loaded. Then it loads the modules and starts the vmware networking stuff. Then, possibly much later, init.d/vmware-server may start the authentication daemon, prior to starting vmware-hostd. No offence, but the dependencies in the service files don't make any sense since the vmware init.d files differ so much. And I don't believe the init.d files were wrong. Instead, the service files should be fixed to mirror the good old init.d files: vmware-usb apparently shouldn't have any dependencies vmware-vmnet possibly needs to depend on (some of) the kernel modules vmware-authentication only seems to be a dependency of the vmware-hostd for which there is not even a service file.
Fixed since overlay commit 741e4d9a127566fd90531a2565d9628764622176 (and also in main tree now)
