On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 02/14/2011 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<rea...@arcor.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files
>>>>> total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable to run the vmplayer
>>>>> app. The GUI never comes up. If I run it in a terminal it seems to die
>>>>> quietly after about 5 seconds. There are no additional messages in
>>>>> dmesg.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OK - there is nothing of interest in the setup log file above, but in
>>>> the same directory there is a player-log which is catching the crash.
>>>> I cannot tell what's kicking it off so I'm considering uninstalling
>>>> all the vmware stuff, looking for stale links, then reinstalling
>>>> vmware.
>>>
>>> Are you using the ebuilds for vmware? (Latest versions are in the
>>> "vmware"
>>> overlay.) I run latest X.Org (1.9.4) and both workstation as well as
>>> player
>>> have no problems here.
>>
>> I switched to those from Pentoo today Nikos and that's when it started
>> working. However what I found so far didn't support the bundled
>> workstation/tools package, only the workstation so right now I don't
>> have the additions stuff installed. I'll be looking into that
>> tomorrow.
>
> It has a USE flags for those ("vmware-tools" flag) which pulls-in the
> app-emulation/vmware-tools package. That package itself has USE flags for
> which tools you want ("vmware_guest_linux", "vmware_guest_windows", etc.)
>
> The ISO images for the tools can then be found in the
> /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/isoimages directory.
>
Thanks! I hadn't found the flags for vmware-tools. I'm sure that will help.
The VMs are already running for the day so I'll look at doing the
emerge later this afternoon when work is done.
Again, a big, appreciative thank you for the info.
Cheers,
Mark
