[Klug-general] VMWare Workstation - installation

[Stuart Buckland]

It's quite curious vmware is looking in /lib but no matter as you have
it working now.

Stu

On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 12:52 +0000, Mike Rentell wrote:
> 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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Stuart Buckland <stuart at nightime.org.uk>