On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 17:43 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > > So far, it is working after the following steps: > > > > (1) Install VMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848.i386.rpm. Do *not* install > > vmware-any-any-update84. > > > > (2) Run vmware-config.pl to build modules for the running kernel. > > Don't forget to "cp -p /dev/vm* /etc/udev/devices" after doing this for > the first time. Damn, I meant to write that. I thought it, anyway... Thanks for catching it. > > > (3) Run "chkconfig vmware reset" to create the proper symlinks. > > > > (4) Things appear to work (so far). Note that "service vmware status" > > lies about whether vmmon and vmnet modules are insmodded, but > > functionality doesn't appear to be affected. > > > > So the problem appears to have been in both the original RPM (improper > > symlinks) and the update84 (something else broken). I'll report back if I > > see any more problems, otherwise, I think it's solved. I'll see what > > VMware newsgoups have to say about fixing the next update. > > Paul. > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
