Bug 253924 – app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.0.118166 has no vmware-config.pl

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Michal Špondr 2009-01-05 23:36:41 UTC]

I've upgraded to vmware-workstation-6.5.0.118166, compiled vmware-modules-1.0.0.23, run /etc/init.d/vmware. There was an error about running the Virtual ethernet service (two exclamation marks).
After I run the vmware, I wasn't able to run any of my virtual systems. It stopped with:

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.

But I didn't find the vmware-config.pl file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /etc/init.d/vmware start
2. ./vmware
3. run any virtual system

Actual Results:  
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...

Expected Results:  
Virtual system should start.

This is what I get after running vmware on stdout:

Logging to /tmp/vmware-m1c4a1/setup-24751.log
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo-r7/misc/vmmon.ko
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author:         VMware, Inc.
depends:        
vermagic:       2.6.27-gentoo-r7 SMP mod_unload 
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo-r7/misc/vmnet.ko
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Networking Driver.
author:         VMware, Inc.
depends:        
vermagic:       2.6.27-gentoo-r7 SMP mod_unload 
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo-r7/misc/vmblock.ko
version:        1.1.2.0
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Blocking File System
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     768B08090715A2D8C721BF3
depends:        
vermagic:       2.6.27-gentoo-r7 SMP mod_unload 
parm:           root:The directory the file system redirects to. (charp)
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo-r7/misc/vmci.ko
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI).
author:         VMware, Inc.
depends:        
vermagic:       2.6.27-gentoo-r7 SMP mod_unload 
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo-r7/misc/vsock.ko
license:        GPL v2
version:        1.0.0.0
description:    VMware Virtual Socket Family
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     EC2E0BE1F6FB039D1109ADB
depends:        vmci
vermagic:       2.6.27-gentoo-r7 SMP mod_unload 
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo-r7/misc/vmmon.ko
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author:         VMware, Inc.
depends:        
vermagic:       2.6.27-gentoo-r7 SMP mod_unload

Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7250_@_2.00GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:45:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.6-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
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:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
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 -march=nocona"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="cs_CZ.UTF8"
LC_ALL="cs_CZ.UTF8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="cs"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
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="/home/m1c4a1/portage"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa amd64 ao audiofile bindist bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr encode flac gdbm geoip gif glut gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imagemagick isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k libnotify lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mmap mmx mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf plotutils png pppd qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session sharedmem smartcard spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 svg sysfs tcpd threads trayicon truetype type1 unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis wifi xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="cs" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Michal Špondr 2009-01-06 11:52:26 UTC]

I did the
emerge --config vmware-workstation
command, reemerged vmware-modules and the Virtual ethernet is set up correctly. But I'm still getting the same error message about vmware-config.pl as before.

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-01-08 14:52:13 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 247624 ***