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Bug 119412

Summary: VMWare, impossible to configure
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Fabio C. <ceca_89>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 2005.1   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Fabio C. 2006-01-18 05:21:48 UTC
CELERON shocker # /etc/init.d/vmware start
 * VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
 * for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the
 * following command: /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl.
 * VMware is not properly configured! See above.                          [ !! ]
CELERON shocker # /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped.
 
 * ERROR:  "vmware" has not yet been started.
Unable to stop services for VMware Workstation
 
Execution aborted.
 
CELERON shocker # /etc/init.d/vmware status
 * status:  stopped
CELERON shocker #

Vmware version is: 5.5.1.19175
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-01-18 05:34:05 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95761 ***