On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 12:52 +0200, Chris Rouch wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Matthew Saltzman<mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I performed a fresh install of F11, then installed > > VMware-Workstation-6.5.2-156735.x86_64.rpm. Installed the patch for > > kernel-2.6.29 from http://communities.vmware.com/thread/203231. Now, > > when I try to start a VM, I get a message that the .vmdk file can't be > > found. The message pop-up lets me browse to the location of the file. > > > > File not found: xxx.vmdk > > > > This file is required to power on the virtual machine. If this > > file was moved, please provide its new location. > > > > But the file has not been moved, and when I select the file from the > > browser, VMware still refuses to start. > > > > Turning selinux to non-enforcing doesn't help. Problem occurs with > > Workstation and Player. Everything worked fine with F10, including with > > a 2.6.29 test kernel. > > > > Anybody seen this? Anybody know a solution? > > > > Try disabling selinux completely. On my F10 box with vmware server, > permissive mode wasn't enough. I got it, actually (noted elsewhere in the thread). It was permissions, but not selinux. For a raw-disk machine, user needs to be in group disk. Apparently, with F11, they finally made /dev/sda* group writable again, so sysadmin doesn't need to do it. VMs still hang on shutdown, but that seems to be a different, known issue with no current workaround. > > Regards, > > Chris > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
