Re: [PLUG] VMWare Player on Ubuntu Dapper, vmnet module error

[sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

hey shameel,

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 17:31 -0500, Shameel Arafin wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Trying to install VMWare Player from Ubuntu repos, using the
> instructions found here:
> 	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Player
> 
> Getting an error during installation. The tail end of the messages reads:
> 
> 
> Starting VMware services:
>    Virtual machine monitor                                            failed
>    Virtual ethernet                                                   failed
> Module vmnet is not loaded.  Please verify that it is loaded before
> running this script.
> 
> invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

i had this problem as well.  if i remember correctly, the kernel module
provided as part of the package is built against a previous kernel
version, and was never updated for the latest security update to the
kernel.  so, you'll need to rebuild the module yourself (install the
relevant linux-headers package and run vmware-config.pl).

fwiw, the quality of this packaging isn't so hot to begin with, but
neither is the quality of any of the packages provided by vmware.  


	sean

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