[Leaplist] why do i have to reinstall vmware-server every time

[Sun State Martial Arts]

Sun State Martial Arts wrote:
> David Simmons wrote:
>> >> I reboot, or logout of my GUI?
>>
>> ok....while you did give alot of info - you didn't say what's really 
>> needed.
>>
>> Your best bet is to read through the logs....you'll find them at:
>>
>> /var/log/vmware
>
> in here it is very long, but the biggest thing i am noting is it seems 
> to be looking for 'vmmon' no clue what that is.
>
>>
>> probably want to look mostly at the 'vmware-serverd.log'
>>
>> Also, you didn't mention how you're shutting down before exiting the 
>> GUI?....are you leaving the Guest OS' running?  You can check by 
>> going to the command line and doing:
>
> after reinstalling vmware-server and the VM starts the client (VM) is 
> winXP Pro, thought i mentioned that oh well.  when i am done with XP i 
> click start, shut down, and power off the VM, then inside VMWare 
> control GUI i click, file, exit.  that is how i shut down VMWare every 
> time.
>>
>> vmrun list
>
> sudo vmrun list
> Password:
> Total running VMs: 0
>
>>
>> That'll tell you which Guest OS' are currently running.....before 
>> rebooting the machine (Host) - you should make sure that no guests 
>> are running.  Do a 'man vmrun' to get more info about this 
>> tool....it'll help you start and stop Guest's without using the GUI.
>>
>> If you have shutdown / restarted the Host Machine while the Guests 
>> were running.....you'll see a variety of *.READLOCK   and maybe some 
>> *.MULTILOCK files in your Virtual Machine's directories - you'll need 
>> to delete them before the guest will restart.
>>
>> Let me know if any of the above do the trick.
>>
>>  -dave
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just fyi, i did a short search for vmmon sabayon and found the following 
link.

http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Install_vmware_workstation_6.0.3_build_80004_(March_14)_on_Sabayon_x86-3.5_Loop2-r2

not sure if it solved the problem or not as i am not home, but i did run 
the script so will see when i get home later tonight.


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