Bug 129997

Summary:	vmware workstation and xorg-x11-7.0-r1 are not compatible
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	M. Edward Borasky <znmeb>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description M. Edward Borasky 2006-04-14 16:58:38 UTC

Steps to recreate:

1. Install VMWare Workstation 5.5 on a Windows host
2. Build a Gentoo guest with xorg-x11-7.0-r1
3. Attempt to install VMWare tools:

The "config" step builds "vmhgfs" just fine, but croaks trying to do the X part with the message

Detected X.org version 7.0.

Problem extracting verion of X.org

Execution aborted

I rather doubt this is a Gentoo problem -- I'll simply drop back to xorg 6 something and it should go away. But I didn't see anything in the VMWare documentation saying that Workstation 5.5 couldn't handle xorg 7.0.

Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-17 07:12:53 UTC

So you mean that it isn't compatible as a *guest* not that vmware-workstation doesn't work on Gentoo...

Well, it sounds more like an issue with the VMware tools, which means it needs to be taken up with VMware themselves.