On 9/21/05, Joe Menola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday September 21 2005 5:54 pm, Grant wrote:
> > > > Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via
> > > > portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine.  When I
> > > > click "Start this virtual machine", nothing happens at all.  Does
> > > > anyone know why this is happening?
> > >
> > > The solution can be found in the Gentoo forums.
> >
> > I can't find it.  Can you suggest some search terms?
>
> Search on the error you're getting. But it seams you haven't found it yet
> (running "vmware" in a terminal should shed some light).
>
> I think your problem can be found here..
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-381798-highlight-vmware.html
>
> If that's not it post the terminal output?
>
> -jm

That forum post instructed me to run:

chmod u+s /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware-vmx

and that fixed it.  Thanks!

- Grant

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