topic OpenSUSE Tumbleweed run as root in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed run as root

MattGagliardi — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 20:17:12 GMT

I'm attempting to kick the tires pretty hard on moving from a Windows 11 host over to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I got Workstation Pro installed and running, however I've noticed in some of the Preferences dialogs there are warnings that I have to be running as root in order to modify certain settings (memory over-allocation/swapping for example). Can anyone help me out with figuring out how to make that...run GUI app as root on-demand...happen? FWIW xfce window environment, accessed both local/console and occasionally over xrdp.

I did take a run at editing visudo and modifying the launch command on the .desktop shortcut but that didn't seem to work (open to trying again).

TIA!

Re: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed run as root

louyo — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 20:43:15 GMT

sudo /usr/bin/vmware %U

works here.

Re: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed run as root

MattGagliardi — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:52:20 GMT

Unfortunately that's not working for me when I'm in a remote (xrdp) session...I get an error spit back out that reads "DISPLAY is not set, unable to open the VMware Workstation user interface". This is probably something of a me-only corner case due to accessing remotely. I'll keep investigating.