Bug 71788

Summary:	vmware-workstation cannot install networking
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Don Seiler (RETIRED) <rizzo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) <wolf31o2>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-19 13:38:40 UTC

I thought this might be a dupe of Bug #70772, but the output is different, so I filed separately.

When I run vmware-config.pl, networking is screwed. Here is my config output:

# /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped.

Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Virtual ethernet done

Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r1/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Building for VMware Workstation 4.5.2 or VMware GSX Server 3.1.0.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r1/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/
. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r1'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/common/hash.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/common/task.o
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wstrict-prototypes" is valid for C/ObjC
but not for C++
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wdeclaration-after-statement" is valid f
or C/ObjC but not for C++
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wstrict-prototypes" is valid for C/ObjC
but not for C++
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/vmcore/compat.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/vmcore/moduleloop.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/vmmon.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r1'
cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.

This program previously created the file /dev/vmmon, and was about to remove it.
Somebody else apparently did it already.

Extracting the sources of the vmnet module.

Building the vmnet module.

Building for VMware Workstation 4.5.2 or VMware GSX Server 3.1.0.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r1/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/
. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r1'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/driver.o
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/driver.c: In function `init_module':
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/driver.c:503: warning: label `err_ioctl' defined
but not used
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/hub.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/userif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/netif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/bridge.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/procfs.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/vmnet.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/vmnet.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r1'
cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only'
The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.

This program previously created the file /dev/vmnet0, and was about to remove
it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

You have already setup networking.

Would you like to skip networking setup and keep your old settings as they are?
(yes/no) [yes]

Do you want this program to automatically configure your system to allow your
virtual machines to access the host's filesystem? (yes/no/help) [no]

Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 failed

The configuration of VMware Workstation 4.5.2 build-8848 for Linux for this
running kernel completed successfully.

You can now run VMware Workstation by invoking the following command:
"/opt/vmware/bin/vmware".

Enjoy,

--the VMware team

# /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/bin/vmware-config.pl.
* VMware is not properly configured! See above.

Comment 1 Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-19 13:45:06 UTC

Note that -r1 works.  wolf31o2 stated in #gentoo-dev that this breakage occurs with -r2 and udev < 049.

Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-19 16:27:31 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70237 ***