Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 16:50 +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: >> Christopher A. Williams wrote: >>> Again, if there is anyone who has figured out the appropriate "magic >>> incantation" for getting VMware Server 2.0 RC1 up and running on F9, >>> lots of us here would like to know about it. Do share - I'm certain >>> people will reply with their thanks. >> I have VMware Server 2.0 RC1 running on my Fedora 9 system (x86_64) with >> a single Windows XP client. So what's the problem? I can check my >> configuration to try to help out. >> >> I had VMware Server 1.0.whatever, but needed USB 2.0 support, so I >> upgraded to 2.0 beta, and later to RC1. >> >> (I will be away for the second half of this week, so if I seem >> unresponsive, that might be the reason.) > > Excellent! > > I'm not sure what the problem is. Everything seems to install and > compile/configure (vmware-config.pl) without issues. But then I can't > login to the Web interface at all. Closer inspection shows that several > services come up as dead. After rebooting, the startup messages show > that the system is not properly configured and about half of the > services show that they failed to start (others do start though). > Re-running vmware-config.pl shows everything re-configuring just fine > and services starting, but in reality they still show up as being dead. > > I'm running the 32-bit version of F9 with this system. It's an older > due-processor Intel Xeon server that doesn't have 64-bit support. > > I'm traveling this week too, so I won't be able to do anything with this > system for a few days as well... :) > > If I could just get an idea of what needs to be there and what doesn't, > I'm sure that would help a lot...
One thing that I have to do every time is to do # service vmware restart (as root) after booting (and after I login). If I don't do that, I get no UI. The service is started when the system boots, but I really need to restart it for it to work. -- Sjoerd Mullender
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