On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 20:11 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 16:49 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 07:39 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> >
> > I installed VMware on F11 and the patch and it started fine for me, but when
> > I tried to install WinXP as a guest OS my system locked up solid. By
> > default vmware looks for files in ~./vmware if you moved it and didn't
> > change the config you'll get this error. I also get the errors shown below
> > during the install.
> >
> > I did not move the files--they are still in a subdirectory of ~/vmware.
> >
> > I don't recall if there were errors, but I will re-install and try
> > again.
>
> Sorry for the dup. I reinstalled and started vmware as root to get
> modules built (instead of the command-line command suggested in the
> patch script). This time, it worked.
It worked because it was running as root (so that it could build the
modules. This VM is a raw disk one, and I needed write access to the
raw disks. I added my userid to the disk group and now it works (except
it seems to hang on shutdown, but that's a problem for another day).
Used to be that I got an informative error message when this happened,
about not having write access to the raw disk. Not sure why that's no
longer the case.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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