Hi,
Following step by step the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware guide, I've tried several times this week to install VMware Workstation 9.0.2 on an ArchLinux 6.4 rolling 64 bit host without any success.
Here is what I did:
- Hardware: Laptop Acer Aspire 8930, Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2 GHz., RAM 4 Gb. HDD 160 Gb.
- Starting with a fresh install (base & base-devel)
- su
- pacman -Syyuu
- pacman-S linux-headers
- cd /lib/modules/3.10.2-1-ARCH/build/include/linux
- ln -sv ../generated/uapi/linux/version.h
- for x in {0..6}; do mkdir -pv /etc/init.d/rc$x.d; done
- cd /home/fnux
- ./VMware-Workstation-Full-9.0.2-1031769.x86_64.bundle --extract /tmp/vmware-temp
- cp /tmp/vmware-temp/vmware-usbarbitrator/etc/init.d/vmware-USBArbitrator /etc/init.d/
- ./VMware-Workstation-Full-9.0.2-1031769.x86_64.bundle --console
- Accepted the LUA
- Hit [Enter] for all the questions
Then the installer started, but always hanged with the error: Rolling back VMware Arbitrator,10.1.23
Then Uninstalling VMware Installer 2.1.0 and ended with the message: Installation was unsuccessful.
So, what should I do?
Did I forget a step?
Just for info: As said in the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware guide about the 3.10 kernels:
$ cd /tmp
$ curl -O http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/vmblock-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch
$ curl -O http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch
$ cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source ########## <---- this can't be done since the folder doesn't exist!
so the rest below can't be performed.
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TIA for your help since I'm really lost.
# tar -xvf vmblock.tar
# tar -xvf vmnet.tar
# patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmblock-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch
# patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch
# tar -cf vmblock.tar vmblock-only
# tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
# rm -r vmblock-only
# rm -r vmnet-only
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
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TIA for your help since I'm really lost.:smileyconfused: