vmware-workstation install troubles

Drakon

emerge vmware-workstation tell error 404.
I try to download vmware-workstation 6.0.1 from site.
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vmware-distrib # perl ./vmware-install.pl
The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were
not installed by the VMware Installer. Please remove them then run this
installer again.

vmnet
vmmon

Execution aborted.
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How can I delete these modules?

Vorlon · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:23 am Post subject:

I had the same problem, even though the modules were not loaded. Never did figure it out

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mbalino · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 30 Location: Edmonton

I have the same problem

emerge -s vmware
app-emulation/vmware-workstation
Latest version available: 5.5.5.56455
Latest version installed: 5.5.5.56455
x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware
Latest version available: 10.15.0
Latest version installed: 10.15.0

After run vmware-config.pl and create a new machine, when I try to start it I have the error:
Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.
Failed to initialize monitor device. Unable to change virtual machine power state: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to.
Failed to reply to the dialog: Pipe: Read failed

lsmod
Module Size Used by
nvidia 8103480 24
gspca 593104 0
pcspkr 3328 0
i2c_nforce2 5760 0

I don't know what can I do!

Vorlon · Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:03 am Post subject:

I recently tried using "VirtualBox" and feel it is just as good as vmWare for normal desktop emulation. There are 2 versions of VirtualBox in the Gentoo portage system. One is the Open Source version, which does not include USB support. The other is a binary version which does include USB. The opensource version is published under the GPL. The enhanced binary version is free for personal use.

Based on having this available, I don't see any reason to bother with vmWare anymore.

You may want to give it a try too.
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Drakon · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject:

Thank you. All works nice.
And one note: I download last VMware and exec emerge --sync... After this put VMware distrib to /usr/portage/distfiles and it installed by emerge vmware-workstation.
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