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devsk
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 Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:29 am Post subject: Has anybody got vmware player 3.0 to install yet? |
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I know it just came out today but still. I am curious about its features like the ability to create and edit virtual machines, which was not possible so far. Also, 3D improvments. I wanna know what games work in vmware player now.
ok....may be too early to ask questions...but at least now you know that its out there.... |
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luispa
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| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:58 am Post subject: |
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I've tried the new vmware workstation 7 and its vmplayer, both are fantastic, huge improvement.
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devsk
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| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| luispa wrote: | I've tried the new vmware workstation 7 and its vmplayer, both are fantastic, huge improvement.
Luis |
On Gentoo? Where did you get the ebuild from? |
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luispa
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| devsk wrote: | | luispa wrote: | I've tried the new vmware workstation 7 and its vmplayer, both are fantastic, huge improvement.
Luis |
On Gentoo? Where did you get the ebuild from? |
No ebuild, I did it manually  . You can find it documented in my wiki (sorry only in spanish), but you'll get the point following the commands, actions, etc.
Just one issue: at one point I link the /etc/init.d/vmware and rc-update it, but then it doesn't work. I haven't had time to look at it, just need to start it manually after boot (I reboot rarely, so low priority in my case).
Hope it helps
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luispa
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:54 am Post subject: |
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Let me make it easier for non-spanish speakers, copy/pasted from my wiki and translated the basics to install vmware workstation 7 :
VMWare 7 (64) installation
Begining of Nov there is no ebuild so you can try VMware 7 and VM Player 3 installation manually. I recommend you VMWare Workstation 7 for linux, it's extremelly goog: alsa support at last, 4 CPU's, resolved some historical issues, and performance great improvement (tested with Windows 7 - 64bits).
Process
* Block portage vmware 6.x till we have the ebuild for 7.
| Code: | /etc/portage/package.mask
app-emulation/vmware-modules
app-emulation/vmware-workstation
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* Uninstall previous version
| Code: | # /etc/init.d/vmware stop
# emerge -C vmware-modules vmware-workstation
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* Download VMWare 7 workstation from VMWare
* Start the installation (this were my selections)
| Code: | # mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc0.d
# mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc1.d
# mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc2.d
# mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
# mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc4.d
# mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
# mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc6.d
# mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/init.d
# sh ./VMware-Workstation-Full-7.0.0-203739.x86_64.bundle
* System Service Runlevels
/etc/rc.d
* System Service Scripts
/etc/rc.d/init.d
* Path to eclipse directory...
lo dejo <vacio> en mi caso
* ecplise c/c++ debugging plugin?
<no>
* file descriptors
4096
* <INSTALL>
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* Link the start script. Note, it is useless, after boot didn't work for me, need to study it.
| Code: | # cp /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware /etc/init.d/vmware
# rc-update add vmware default
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Configuration
vmware-config.pl is not included since long now, so you have to use "vmplayer" from root to get the kernel modules compiled.
* First, remove the old ones
| Code: | # cd /lib64/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r4/misc/
# rm vm* vsock.*
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* Run vmplayer as root from your X environment,
| Code: | $ su -
# vmplayer
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compiles everything and creates the new modules
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Starting VMware services:
VMware USB Arbitrator done
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual machine communication interface done
VM communication interface socket family done
Blocking file system done
Virtual ethernet done
Shared Memory Available done
# cd /lib64/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r4/misc/
# ls -al
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 oct 28 19:56 vmblock.ko -> /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r4/misc/vmblock.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22970 oct 28 19:56 vmblock.o
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 oct 28 19:56 vmci.ko -> /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r4/misc/vmci.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79872 oct 28 19:56 vmci.o
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 oct 28 19:56 vmmon.ko -> /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r4/misc/vmmon.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103405 oct 28 19:56 vmmon.o
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 oct 28 19:56 vmnet.ko -> /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r4/misc/vmnet.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65169 oct 28 19:56 vmnet.o
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 oct 28 19:57 vsock.ko -> /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r4/misc/vsock.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52958 oct 28 19:57 vsock.o
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* REVDEP-REBUILD: Add the following to your /etc/make.conf
| Code: | # Ignore searching under manual installation of VMWare
SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/usr/lib64/vmware
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Start VMWare
* Use vmplayer (run existing VMs) or vmware (you need to buy a license, something that I recommend as the product is fantastic)
$ vmware
* In my wiki (in spanish) you can see some screenshots with a Win7-64 guest under WMWare 7-64, executing intensive tests.
Hope it helps,
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coolone
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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thanks luispa, it is helpful
not sure why still no ebuild for VMware Workstation 7, it has been released a month.
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benneque
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| Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Hm, still noone willing to make an ebuild for VMware 7 ? |
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hamilito
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:27 am Post subject: |
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OK I can't get VMware player 3.1 to work on Gentoo
anyone
I did all the steps here but when I run
I get this
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vmplayer
Logging to /tmp/vmware-hamill/setup-18014.log
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/misc/vmmon.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 SMP preempt mod_unload CORE2
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/misc/vmnet.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Networking Driver.
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 SMP preempt mod_unload CORE2
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/misc/vmblock.ko
supported: external
version: 1.1.2.0
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Blocking File System
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: 9B4563B3C180049AA056D00
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 SMP preempt mod_unload CORE2
parm: root:The directory the file system redirects to. (charp)
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/misc/vmci.ko
supported: external
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI).
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 SMP preempt mod_unload CORE2
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/misc/vsock.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
version: 1.0.0.0
description: VMware Virtual Socket Family
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: 6386442041684F53FC694D2
depends: vmci
vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 SMP preempt mod_unload CORE2
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/misc/vmmon.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 SMP preempt mod_unload CORE2
user@localhost ~ |
and nothing happens |
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hamilito
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:43 am Post subject: |
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