Hi,
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 20:12 -0400, David Relson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've got vmware-server installed on my AMD64x2 workstation with kernel
> 2.6.25-gentoo-r4. It used to work fine with kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r9.
>
> My current versions are:
>
> vmware-server: 1.0.5.80187
> vmware-modules: 1.0.0.15-r1
>
> Today vmware won't start up. It's complaining:
>
> vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
> for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
> /opt/vmware/server/bin/vmware-config.pl.
>
> I've run vmware-config.pl and accepted the default answers to all
> questions -- the same thing I've done several times over the past
> year. The run ends with the following messages:
>
> * Starting VMware services: [ ok ]
> * Virtual machine monitor [ !! ]
> * Virtual ethernet [ !! ]
> * Module vmnet is not loaded. Please verify that it is loaded
> before [ !! ]
> * running this script. [ !! ]
>
> The configuration of VMware Server 1.0.5 build-80187 for Linux for
> this running kernel completed successfully.
>
> Given the "module vmnet" message, I've run "emerge --oneshot
> vmware-modules" and verified that /lib/modules/2.6.25-gentoo-r4/misc
> has new versions of vmmon.ko and vmnet.ko. When I run "modprobe
> vmnet", it reports:
>
> FATAL: Error inserting vmnet
> (/lib/modules/2.6.25-gentoo-r4/misc/vmnet.ko): Invalid module
> format
>
> What detail am I missing about building vmnet.ko ??
I have various vmware module problems, and there are a number of tweaks
I try when I get to a brick wall:
sometimes just `rm /etc/vmware/not_configured` is enough, but given you
can't load it manually, maybe not!
try both:
/etc/init.d/vmware stop
/etc/vmware/init.d/vmware stop
and make sure all vm* modules are unloaded.
run vmware-config, but say no to everthing. Then start start the vmware
init.d service, see if it works. (don't run vmware).
stop vmware, run vmware-config again, and then add in your options.
Start the vmware service again... and cross your fingers :)
There might also be some useful messages in dmesg, or syslog (can't
remember where they go) about why the module isn't loading - perhaps
there's a deprecated kernel option you have to compile in?
HTH,
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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