On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:11, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I have a 30-day license to evaluate this beast, and it is not going well. > I blame my own inexperience, not VMware, but it's still frustrating. > > As things stand, I can start my virtual machine (the current one runs > Minix) only as root. I can start vmware as a user, but any attempt to > start my VM brings up a message about it not being able to connect > to its peer (whatever that is), and the VM does not start. > > When I run as root, things seem better, but it complains that it was > unable to extablish an IP number for the simulated ethernet card > (networking is set up for NAT).
Though I've never used VMware with Minix as the guest, I can assume the principles are the same as they are when I use it for Windows. The trick to getting it to work easy for me has always been the "configure networking" step of vmware-config.pl. DON'T try to configure NAT, scan for private subnets or anything, just use the bridged network. Here's the result of me running the config script: # /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped. * Stopping VMware services: [ ok ] * Virtual machine monitor [ ok ] * Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ ok ] * Virtual ethernet [ ok ] Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries. Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel. None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] yes Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r6/build/include] Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. <snip> Would you like to skip networking setup and keep your old settings as they are? (yes/no) [yes] no Do you want networking for your virtual machines? (yes/no/help) [yes] y Would you prefer to modify your existing networking configuration using the wizard or the editor? (wizard/editor/help) [wizard] wizard The following bridged networks have been defined: All your ethernet interfaces are already bridged. Do you want to be able to use NAT networking in your virtual machines? (yes/no) [yes] no Do you want to be able to use host-only networking in your virtual machines? [no] no Extracting the sources of the vmnet module. Building the vmnet module. <snip> The module loads perfectly in the running kernel. * Starting VMware services: [ ok ] * Virtual machine monitor [ ok ] * Virtual ethernet [ ok ] * Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ ok ] The configuration of VMware Workstation 5.5.1 build-19175 for Linux for this running kernel completed successfully. You can now run VMware Workstation by invoking the following command: "/opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware". Enjoy, --the VMware team -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
