On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 10:00 -0500, Greg Sieranski wrote:
> Tom London wrote:
> > I've had VMWare 6.02 running on Rawhide on X86 for quite a while.
> >
> > Requires a patch to /usr/lib/vmware/net-services.sh to fix a bug it
> > has with SELinux that makes it ask to rerun 'vmware-config.pl' each
> > boot:
> >
> > --- net-services.sh.old 2007-10-01 14:45:51.000000000 -0700
> > +++ net-services.sh 2007-10-12 10:41:19.000000000 -0700
> > @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
> >
> > # Determine if SELinux is enabled
> > isSELinuxEnabled() {
> > - if [ "`cat /selinux/enforce 2> /dev/null`" = "1" ]; then
> > + if [ -x /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled ] && /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled ; then
> > echo "yes"
> > else
> > echo "no"
> > @@ -616,6 +616,9 @@
> > if [ ! -e "$vDevice" ]; then
> > mknod -m 600 "$vDevice" c 119 "$vHubNr"
> > fi
> > + if [ "`isSELinuxEnabled`" = 'yes' ]; then
> > + restorecon "$vDevice"
> > + fi
> > }
> >
> > # Create a virtual host ethernet interface and connect it to a virtual
> >
> >
> > Haven't tested/tried on x64....
> >
> > tom
> >
> am running Fedora 8( 2.6.23.1-49) with VMWare workstation
> 6.0.2(build-59824) on a T60p.
>
> I found that Vmware would start up fine but if I tried to open an image
> file I would recieve:
>
> (vmware-tray:15135): Gtk-WARNING **: GModule initialization check
> failed: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch)
> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error:
> /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/filesystems/libgnome-vfs.so: undefined
> symbol: g_get_user_special_dir
>
> The work around was to set VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=no. This allowed me to
> open up images I had previously created. Now when I tried to start up
> the images I would get the "Version mismatch with vmmon module:
> expecting 167.0, got 161.0". So I tried reinstalling vmware and not
> running the any-any-update114 patch. Now, I do not get the version
> mismatch error but my system just locks up and I have to hold down the
> power button to reboot.
>
> I tried downgrading to VMWare Workstation 6.0.0 and applying the
> any-any-update114 but my system still locks up.
Two things:
1) I'm running F8 x86_64 on a HP8510w laptop with Workstation 6.0.2 and
can vouch that the above patch works perfectly!
2) In my experience, vmware-any-any114 does much more harm than good on
Workstation 6.0.X - although it is a must if you're running VMware
Server. I would start over and totally remove ALL vestiges of VMware
from your system, then re-install 6.0.2. After that, use the patch
supplied above. VMware would hard freeze my system without the patch
because the vmnet nodes were gone and it apparently caused a cascading
set of other issues.
I also got the gtk error, but ignored it after using the patch and all
seems functional.
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Chris
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