Bug 88871 – VMWare 5 upgrade from Portage hangs with vmware-vmx at 100% CPU

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Michael Lee Yohe 2005-04-12 09:28:20 UTC]

I recently upgraded from VMWare 4.5.2 to VMWare 5 from Portage (~x86) because 5 contains important enhancements for a project I am working on.  After re-doing "vmware-config.pl", VMWare Workstation 5 will start up (the main window).  But when I open a pre-existing virtual machine, it sits blank after completing the BIOS screen.

# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar  1 2005, 13:41:43)]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.21-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo"
LANG="en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dv dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod mjpeg motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge search vmware-workstation
Searching...
[ Results for search key : vmware-workstation ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  app-emulation/vmware-workstation
      Latest version available: 5.0.0.13124
      Latest version installed: 5.0.0.13124
      Size of downloaded files: 67,106 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html
      Description: Emulate a complete PC on your PC without the usual performance overhead of most emulators
      License:     vmware

[Comment 1 Michael Lee Yohe 2005-04-12 09:45:37 UTC]

Virtual machine is running "Windows XP SP2".  The virtual machine exhibited no problems whatsoever with the older version of VMWare.

[Comment 2 Michael Lee Yohe 2005-04-12 09:50:29 UTC]

Created attachment 56097 [details]
strace of the running VMWare process...

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-04-12 10:34:09 UTC]

VMware is a binary package and we do not have access to the source.  Once you've started your virtual machine, you're in the realm of the application itself and will therefore need to contact VMware for support as we don't have access to the necessary information to help.

[Comment 4 Michael Lee Yohe 2005-04-12 11:58:25 UTC]

That's fine.  I didn't know if there was an "any any" update that should be applied that hasn't already.  Thanks.

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-04-12 12:38:50 UTC]

Nah... I've got any any 90 on there, which didn't actually have any binary patches...

Looks like it'll have to wait until someone upstream comes up with a fix... if an any 91 comes out and fixes this, feel free to REOPEN the bug.