There is no vmware-config.pl found after installing via RPM to reconfig vmware after a new kernel is installed. Only way to reconfigure is to uninstall the RPM then reinstall. Is there another script that can be run, or is the vmware-config.pl file just missing? The PDF manual for 2.5 references vmware-config.pl... Thanks
Trying to install VWware-Player-2.5.1-126130.x86_64.rpm on Fedora 10 x86_64 I cannot get the vmplayer application to work. It appears the modules have not been properly configured, and the lack of vmware-confiog.pl has made it exceedingly difficult to figure out where the problem lies. I've tried all the suggestions in this thread -- uninstalling VMware-Player, unpacking the .bundle from the rpm file and running "sudo VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.x86_64.bundle -r" -- I get a lovely gui install window which cheerfully tells me that installation has been successful, but it still doesn't work. I've run "vmware-modconfig --console --install-all" and it seg-faults:
vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
Segmentation fault
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What's the deal here? Is there some significant advantage to hiding everything in that stupid bundle, or can we have vmware-config.pl back again, please?
This is likely an issue with the pre-built module code that other people have run into. Simply mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary{,.old} and try to run Player.
Ok, I have taken your advice to "mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary{,.old} and try to run Player" and I was able to get the modules to build and load: ...
Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine communication interface
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine communication interface
So far, so good. But when I run "vmplayer" it still fails. What's more interesting is the console message it throws:
VMware Player Error:
VMware Player is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system administrator must find and run "vmware-config.pl". For more information, please see the VMware Player documentation.
Press "Enter" to continue...
So, once again WHERE IS "vmware-config.pl"??? Even vmplayer is telling me to use it!
Here's the whole console log from the failed session:
Logging to /tmp/vmware-john/setup-26044.log filename: /lib/modules/2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64/misc/vmmon.ko license: GPL v2 description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor. author: VMware, Inc. srcversion: 96CBF0250D0FB3F01BFBFFC depends: vermagic: 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 SMP mod_unload filename: /lib/modules/2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64/misc/vmnet.ko license: GPL v2 description: VMware Virtual Networking Driver. author: VMware, Inc. srcversion: ADCA63162FFDDBB3FC374B5 depends: vermagic: 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 SMP mod_unload filename: /lib/modules/2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64/misc/vmblock.ko version: 1.1.2.0 license: GPL v2 description: VMware Blocking File System author: VMware, Inc. srcversion: 768B08090715A2D8C721BF3 depends: vermagic: 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 SMP mod_unload parm: root:The directory the file system redirects to. (charp) filename: /lib/modules/2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64/misc/vmci.ko license: GPL v2 description: VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI). author: VMware, Inc. srcversion: F400DF976CFE388EBC1A0A2 depends: vermagic: 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 SMP mod_unload filename: /lib/modules/2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64/misc/vsock.ko license: GPL v2 version: 1.0.0.0 description: VMware Virtual Socket Family author: VMware, Inc. srcversion: EC2E0BE1F6FB039D1109ADB depends: vmci vermagic: 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 SMP mod_unload filename: /lib/modules/2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64/misc/vmmon.ko license: GPL v2 description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor. author: VMware, Inc. srcversion: 96CBF0250D0FB3F01BFBFFC depends: vermagic: 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 SMP mod_unload VMware Player Error: VMware Player is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system administrator must find and run "vmware-config.pl". For more information, please see the VMware Player documentation. Press "Enter" to continue...
And here is "/tmp/vmware-john/setup-26044.log"
Feb 02 22:35:19.746: app| Log for VMware Workstation pid=26812 version=6.5.1 build=build-126130 option=Release Feb 02 22:35:19.746: app| Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8 Feb 02 22:35:19.746: app| Logging to /tmp/vmware-john/setup-26812.log
Hi,
As an alternative, you could use the alternative minimal build script from Noel posted here:
http://www.vi-toolkit.com/wiki/index.php/Build_host_vmware_kernel_modules
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Tried it. Same result -- no joy.
Just tried the "vmware-any-any-update117-itpsycho" patch. Still no joy:
Unable to open the installer database /etc/vmware/locations in read-mode.
Execution aborted.
N.B. There is no "/etc/vmware/locations" -- probably disappeared to the same place vmware-config.pl went.
total 460
-rw-rr 1 root root 314 2009-02-02 23:18 bootstrap
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-02-02 23:18 components
-rw-rr 1 root root 400 2009-02-02 23:20 config
-rw-rr 1 root root 466 2008-01-13 11:04 config.old.0
-rw-rr 1 root root 430080 2009-02-02 23:20 database
-rw------- 1 root root 461 2009-02-02 23:20 networking
-rw------- 1 root root 461 2009-02-02 23:19 networking.bak.0
-rw-rr 1 root root 0 2009-02-01 19:37 not_configured
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-31 10:20 state
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-02-02 23:19 vmnet1
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-02-02 23:19 vmnet8
Remove /etc/vmware/not_configured. That code shouldn't be present in 2.5.1 though so I'm not confused how that file is getting created and why that message is being shown.
Heh. That did it. Thanks!
Tried it. Same result -- no joy.
Weird.. the last line in that script is ...:
rm /etc/vmware/not_configured
maybe it needs to be changed into:
rm -f /etc/vmware/not_configured
in order to work for every configuration?
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I am having same problem ..but above
given solutions do not work for me. I installed VMplayer on Fedora
core 9 machine (x86_64). It worked fine until few days ago I updated
my system. I have all the symptoms of the problem. Renaming the
binary directory does force re-compilation but abruptly fails with
the message that
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Unable to stop services.
See log file /tmp/vmware-root/setup-22037.log for details.
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There is nothing in the log file except
Feb 21 03:20:29.904: app| Log for VMware Workstation pid=22037 version=6.5.1 build=build-126130 option=Release
Feb 21 03:20:29.904: app| Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
Feb 21 03:20:29.904: app| Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-22037.log
What am I missing ??
I manualy stopped the service by "service vmware stop" with following output
Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine communication interface
Any idea ? What went wrong ...