unable to run vmplayer( versions 4,5 ) and vmware worktation9 after intallation on opensuse12.2X86-64

[rupeshforu3]

Sir,

           Recently I have installed opensuse12.2X86-64 on AMD FX 4100 machine. Then I have downloaded vmplayer from your site and followed the instructions specified in opensue site  related to vmplayer installation and the link I followed is http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/unreviewed-how-faq/470594-.... installation successfull message appeared. When I have chooen the icon vmplayer no window is opening so I issued the command vmplayer in terminal. I am getting errors on terminal. I have tried vmplayer version4 also, the same is repeating.

          After that I have downloaded and installed vmware workstation 9 again intallation successfull message appeared but unable to launch workorkstation.

When I issue the command vmware or  vmplayer in terminal I am getting  the following common error to both.

linux-bb90:~ # vmware
Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-modconfig-10771.log
filename:       /lib/modules/3.4.11-2.16-desktop/misc/vmmon.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     40B49F99361D584BCF72CC2
depends:       
vermagic:       3.4.11-2.16-desktop SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
process 10766: Attempt to remove filter function 0x7f7825086080 user data 0x7f783adb9470, but no such filter has been added
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted
linux-bb90:~ #

I am submitting log file created  during vmware workstation installation.

Please help me to successfully run either vmware workstation or vmplayer.

Regards,

Rupesh.

[rupeshforu3]

What is the root cause of this problem like which packages need to be installed and which packages not to be installed, which services need to be started and which services must not be started. Are there any conflicting packages that are preventing VMware workstation or vmplayer to run etc.

[Rahulverma20111]

It is actually unsupported config. opensuse is not supported as a host on Workstation 9 or player 4,5

However, you can try the following. It might work.

1. Stop the dbus servive.

/etc/init.d/dbus stop

2. Start vmware

3. Strat dbus service

/etc/init.d/dbus start

If this doesn't work, try below. Not sure which command is used by openSuse

#/etc/rc.d/hal start

or

#/etc/rc.d/hald start
or
/etc/init.d/haldaemon start

Start vmware

If this works, activate/enable the hal daemon from Yast (http://opensuse-guide.org/yast.php)

[rupeshforu3]

Sir I have followed your instructions in which first step resulted in system crash displaying the message gdm can't connect to system bus. Second step resulted same error stated previously.   Some linux forums are saying that we must run vmware-config.pl script after installation of workstation but I can't find the above file in /usr/bin directory and also I mean I have not ran the above script previously.

[Rahulverma20111]

vmware-config.pl cannot be used since Workstation 6.5. It does not exit anymore in recent versions.

For Workstation 7.x and later you need to use the command below to reconfigure the software. Run the command from root

vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

The --console switch tells Workstation not to launch the GUI, and the --install-all switch rebuilds and reinstalls all modules.

Also, I would recommend you to try a supported Host OS on the physical machine. Even if you succeed to make it to work on openSuse 12, you will still see abonormal behavior during using Workstation. That might included intermittent crashes, features not working, etc.

You can verify the compatibility from the VMware Compatibility guide

http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/search.php?testConfig=16&deviceCategory=software