xxl ~ # lsmod|grep vm xxl ~ # /etc/init.d/vmware start * Starting VMware services: [ ok ] * Virtual machine monitor [ ok ] * Virtual machine communication interface [ ok ] * Blocking file system [ ok ] * Virtual ethernet [ ok ] * Shared Memory Available [ ok ] xxl ~ # lsmod|grep vm vmnet 30452 13 vmblock 10016 3 vmci 40168 0 vmmon 56500 0 xxl ~ # vmware Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-21662.log filename: /lib/modules/2.6.29-gentoo-r1/misc/vmmon.ko supported: external license: GPL v2 description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor. author: VMware, Inc. depends: vermagic: 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions CORE2 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.29-gentoo-r1/misc/vmnet.ko supported: external license: GPL v2 description: VMware Virtual Networking Driver. author: VMware, Inc. depends: vermagic: 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions CORE2 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.29-gentoo-r1/misc/vmblock.ko supported: external version: 1.1.2.0 license: GPL v2 description: VMware Blocking File System author: VMware, Inc. srcversion: 36A952359AF7F9880FE17E3 depends: vermagic: 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions CORE2 parm: root:The directory the file system redirects to. (charp) filename: /lib/modules/2.6.29-gentoo-r1/misc/vmci.ko supported: external supported: external license: GPL v2 description: VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI). author: VMware, Inc. depends: vermagic: 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions CORE2 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.29-gentoo-r1/misc/vsock.ko supported: external license: GPL v2 version: 1.0.0.0 description: VMware Virtual Socket Family author: VMware, Inc. srcversion: FBEE149F5AA7CE4AE22214A depends: vmci vermagic: 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions CORE2 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.29-gentoo-r1/misc/vmmon.ko supported: external license: GPL v2 description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor. author: VMware, Inc. depends: vermagic: 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions CORE2 VMware Workstation Error: VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system administrator must find and run "vmware-config.pl". For more information, please see the VMware Workstation documentation. Press "Enter" to continue... Unable to change virtual machine power state: VMware Workstation cannot connect to the virtual machine. Make sure you have rights to run the program and to access all directories it uses and rights to access all directories for temporary files. dmesg output: /dev/vmmon[20972]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165 /dev/vmmon[20972]: Initial HV check: anyNotCapable=0 anyUnlocked=0 anyEnabled=1 anyDisabled=0 /dev/vmmon[20972]: HV check: anyNotCapable=0 anyUnlocked=0 anyEnabled=1 anyDisabled=0 /dev/vmmon[20972]: Module vmmon: initialized /dev/vmci[20994]: VMCI: Driver initialized. /dev/vmci[20994]: Module vmci: registered with major=10 minor=55 /dev/vmci[20994]: Module vmci: initialized /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 21055 (vmnet-bridge) /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory. /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened bridge-eth1: up bridge-eth1: attached /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 21571 (vmnet-dhcpd) /dev/vmnet: hub 1 does not exist, allocating memory. /dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 21575 (vmnet-netifup) /dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened vmnet1 (): not using net_device_ops yet /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 21579 (vmnet-dhcpd) /dev/vmnet: hub 8 does not exist, allocating memory. /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 21581 (vmnet-natd) /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 21585 (vmnet-netifup) /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened vmnet8 (): not using net_device_ops yet xxl ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:15:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r15, 2.5.4-r2, 2.6.1-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-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 /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="candy distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo " LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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/local/portage/layman/vmware /usr/local/portage /usr/local/overlays/xgl-coffee /usr/local/overlays/eclipse-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi aiglx akode alsa asf bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo captury cdr cg cggui cjk cli cracklib crypt cups curl cvs dba dbus devil dga directfb divx4linux dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam fat fbcon fbcondecor ffmpeg filter firefox flac flash fontconfig fortran fuji fuse gd gdbm gif glib gnome gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick iproute2 ipv6 irda isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k kde kde4 kdepim kdgraphics kpathsea ldap libnotify lm_sensors logitech-mouse mad maildir mbox midimikmod mmx mng modplug mozbranding mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi mudflap mysql ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ogg openal openexr opengl openmp pam pcre pda pdf perl php png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection reiserfs rtps samba scanner sdl semantic-desktop session shout slang slp spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification stream subversion svg sysfs tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vidix vorbis wavpack webkit win32codecs wma wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xface xine xinerama xml xmp xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" 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 auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 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 dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidiavga fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS