Bug 450778

Summary:	app-emulation/vmware-player-5.0.1.894247 - Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 271.0, got 264.1.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Relson <relson>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) <vadimk>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo, vmware+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Relson 2013-01-08 01:17:47 UTC

When I try to start a virtual machine, vmware player complains that vmmon module is the wrong version.

I have uninstalled vmware-player and vmware-modules and run emerge for
  vmware-player-5.0.1.894247 and vmware-modules-271.1-r1


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start vmware
2. select a virtual machine
3. click on "Play virtual machine"
Actual Results:  
An Error dialog is displayed that says:

Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 271.0, got 264.1.
You have an incorrect version of the `vmmon' kernel module.
Try reinstalling VMware Player.

Comment 1 David Relson 2013-02-11 04:01:28 UTC

After lsmod showed that a newly built vmmon wasn't being used, I ran "rmmod", then "modprobe".  This corrected the problem.