[Klug-general] VMWare Workstation - installation

[Mike Rentell]

Well .. actually I don't work. I am sure I have done something entirely 
stupid but it isn't obvious to me.

The system worked immediately upon installation which was gratifying and 
I installed Windows2000Professional. All very good so far.

Then I switched it off and went to bed. Ha - big mistake

Yesterday morning I switched it all on again and there was no network. 
It was as if the network card had blown.

But loading up the latest CD-distro of Mandriva and running just from 
the CD proved otherwise. Network worked fine.

It seems that installing VMWare Workstation had completely screwed up my 
network settings on Debian and I am not clever enough to put them right. 
So I had to reload Debian 4.0 and reconfigure everything again from scratch.

Very depressing. Another odd thing is that so far I have not been able 
to find any clear installation instructions on the VMWare site. Perhaps 
I am half blind but it don't seem obvious.

Right now I have to repartition my HD and put a Windows partition on it 
to get my Windows 2000 going otherwise we will start the week with no 
Sage accounts and that ain't allowed.

Ho well - we tried and thanks for the advice. Perhaps I will try again 
before this 30 trial period is over. But I am not impressed and I don't 
think I shall pay for it until I can be assured everything will work OK.

Cheers

MikeR

Stuart Buckland wrote:
> 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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