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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:16 am    Post subject: VMware Player - chicken and egg Reply with quote

How do I get around this?

localhost init.d # /etc/init.d/vmware start
* VMware Player is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
* for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the
* following command: /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl.
* VMware is not properly configured! See above. [ !! ]
localhost init.d # /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Player are stopped.

* ERROR: "vmware" has not yet been started.
Unable to stop services for VMware Player

Execution aborted.

localhost init.d #
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:

/etc/init.d/vmware zap


this will reset the script status to stopped....

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

localhost peter # /etc/init.d/vmware zap
localhost peter # /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Player are stopped.

* ERROR: "vmware" has not yet been started.
Unable to stop services for VMware Player

Execution aborted.

localhost peter #

Seems to me that the vmware-config.pl script requires vmware services to be started in order to stop them. But it doesn't handle that the vmware services already are stopped.

Peter
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmm.. i just tried it with vmware workstation, no probleme here. Maybe it's VMware Player specific.

Anyway, you can run the vmware-config.pl with -skipstopstart

Code:

/opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl -skipstopstart


Maybe this will help....
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks! That did the trick :)

Regards,

Peter
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