On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 18:02 +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > 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.
Interesting... I'll give that a shot and let you know what happens. Cheers, Chris -- ================================== By all means marry; If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. --Socrates -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
