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