VMWare and Gentoo Problems

After installing vmware-server and vmware-modules I was not able to get vmware to start properly. When trying to start the vmware service:

/etc/init.d/vmware start

I would get this:

* Vmware Server is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
* for the running kernel.
* Please ensure that the modules have been compiled for this kernel:
* emerge --oneshot vmware-modules
* Also ensure Vmware Server has been configured:
* /opt/vmware/server/bin/vmware-config.pl
* VMware is not properly configured! See above.

Reading through the Gentoo forums I tried removing the /etc/vmware/not_configured file and got:

*   Starting VMware services:                                             [ ok ]
*   Virtual machine monitor                                               [ !! ]
*   Virtual ethernet                                                      [ !! ]
*   Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0                                     [ !! ]
*   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background)                      [ ok ]
*   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background)                      [ ok ]
*   NAT service on /dev/vmnet8                                            [ !! ]

I then tried:

emerge -1 vmware-modules

Unfortunately that did not work I looked at what modules were loaded and saw that the vmmon and the vmnet modules were not loaded.

depmod
modprobe vmmod
modprobe vmnet

Finally I added the following lines to the /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

vmmod
vmnet