[Klug-general] VMWare Workstation - installation

[Stuart Buckland]

Sounds like something rather odd happened.  VMware shouldn't touch your
network config, it doesn't need to.  

I would say it is worth persevering with as I find VMware workstation to
be very solid but not if you are in a hurry.  I make the most and often
the silliest mistakes when I'm rushing.

There are a couple of free versions of VMware, namely Player and Server
but if you want to experiment first then you made the right choice by
using the eval of Workstation.

Stu

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 10:02 +0000, Mike Rentell wrote:
> 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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Stuart Buckland <stuart at nightime.org.uk>