[Klug-general] VMWare Workstation - installation

[Mike Rentell]

Hi Stu,

Many thanks for taking the time to write that helpful note - I really 
appreciate it. You are right - it was 'connect' not 'correct'. 
Fingerpokentrubbles!

I hope you weren't too put out by my second email which stated that I 
have found the problem.

All the libraries were on-board but were in /usr/lib and not /lib where 
VMWare Workstation wanted them.

So a quick trip to root and a few ln -s lines and all was fixed.

This is all on account of my feeling my way with Linux - too old too I 
expect.

I really appreciate all the help though.

MikeR

Stuart Buckland wrote:
> 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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