[Klug-general] VMWare Workstation - installation

[Stuart Buckland]

Mike,

Before you do anything with those X libraries could you confirm that
error message actually says ".. Failed to correct the peer process.."
and not "..Failed to connect the peer process.."?

Only reason I ask is if it says the latter it may simply be a
permissions issue with vmware-vmx.  It might be worth checking that
first.

I don't know where it is located on your system but on mine I have it
in /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin.

$ pwd
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin
$ls -l vmware-vmx
-rws--x--- 1 root vmware 5657592 Aug 22 03:47 vmware-vmx

and my user account is a member of the 'vmware' group, so I have execute
permissions.


Rgds
Stu


On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 16:05 +0000, Mike Rentell wrote:
> G'day all,
> I've just downloaded and installed VMWare workstation. During the 
> installation procedure there was a notice indicating that:
> 
> libX11.so.6
> libXtst.so.6
> libXext.so.6
> libXrender.so.1
> libz.so.1
> 
> ...were not found on the system and would need to be installed by hand.
> 
> It then went on and installed everything else.
> 
> Now when I click for a VM to start I get the Error Message -
> 
> 'Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to correct the 
> peer process.'
> 
> So I searched my computer for those .so. files and found them all in 
> /usr/lib
> 
> Could someone perhaps advise me how I shold 'install these files by hand'.
> 
> .. er words of one syllable would help this OAP.
> 
> MikeR
> 
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Stuart Buckland <stuart at nightime.org.uk>