On 5/17/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks, Richard, that did the trick.
I'm not sure I did anything for this, but the networking seems to have been
fixed, or fixed itself, or something.
Using the portage version.
On 5/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Add your user to the 'vmware' group.
Thanks, Richard, that did the trick.
> 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).
I'm not sure I did anything for this, but the networking seems to have been
fixed, or fixed itself, or something.
Did you use the portage installation of vmware-workstation, or
download direct? IME, the portage installation works much better...
Using the portage version.
-Richard
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