Has anyone gotten VMware Player to work on openSUSE 13.1? Just last week I had it working on the RC but now since the release I can install it but as soon as I start a VM the program just crashes and doesn’t give me an error message, and there is nothing in the log either.
On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:56:01 +0000, BluPhenix316 wrote:
> Has anyone gotten VMware Player to work on openSUSE 13.1? Just last week
> I had it working on the RC but now since the release I can install it
> but as soon as I start a VM the program just crashes and doesn’t give me
> an error message, and there is nothing in the log either.
Try starting it from a terminal - that’ll provide us with some sort of
error message that can be diagnosed.
Jim
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I did start it from the terminal and there is no error messages 
I had a similar problem once and fixed it by reinstalling the video drivers (nVidia proprietary driver in my case).
On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:56:01 +0000, BluPhenix316 wrote:
> I did start it from the terminal and there is no error messages
What logs did you look at?
Jim
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OK, so I got fed up, I was using the GNOME version, something told me to try out KDE. I installed the KDE 13.1 cd and vmware worked with out an issue.
On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 03:26:02 +0000, BluPhenix316 wrote:
> OK, so I got fed up, I was using the GNOME version, something told me to
> try out KDE. I installed the KDE 13.1 cd and vmware worked with out an
> issue.
I’m glad you got it sorted, but now that you do see it working under KDE,
you might try again with GNOME and see if whatever the issue was is
resolved.
You may also need to report this to VMware so they can look into it. If
they don’t work with GNOME, that’s going to be a problem for a lot of
people.
Jim
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Just started having the same problem, reinstalled the nvidia drivers, and vmware. no joy. using kde. Was working gine on rc1,2 and gm.
Jack
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:46:02 +0000, Jackddg22 wrote:
> Just started having the same problem, reinstalled the nvidia drivers,
> and vmware. no joy. using kde. Was working gine on rc1,2 and gm. Jack
If you launch from a terminal window, are you seeing any errors?
Anything in the various log files?
Jim
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Here is the reports from console.
vmplayer:12046): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0: missing action removable-device-0
(vmplayer:12046): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1: missing action removable-device-1
(vmplayer:12046): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-2: missing action removable-device-2
(vmplayer:12046): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-3: missing action removable-device-3
(vmplayer:12046): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-4: missing action removable-device-4
Tried unplugging all usb devices, and removed and reinstalled vmplayer. no luck.
Thanks, Jack
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:06:02 +0000, Jackddg22 wrote:
> Here is the reports from console.
> vmplayer:12046): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0: missing action
> removable-device-0
>
> (vmplayer:12046): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1: missing action
> removable-device-1
>
> (vmplayer:12046): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-2: missing action
> removable-device-2
>
> (vmplayer:12046): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-3: missing action
> removable-device-3
>
> (vmplayer:12046): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-4: missing action
> removable-device-4 Tried unplugging all usb devices, and removed and
> reinstalled vmplayer.
> no luck.
> Thanks, Jack
Anything in /var/log/messages at the time vmplayer crashes?
Jim
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2013-11-22T17:00:01.814067-05:00 jack /usr/sbin/cron[18316]: pam_unix(crond:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
2013-11-22T17:00:01.817253-05:00 jack systemd[1]: Starting Session 12 of user root.
2013-11-22T17:00:01.859187-05:00 jack systemd[1]: Started Session 12 of user root.
This in what I got in messages, checked all the other logs. Nothing
Jack
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 22:16:02 +0000, Jackddg22 wrote:
> 2013-11-22T17:00:01.814067-05:00 jack /usr/sbin/cron[18316]:
> pam_unix(crond:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
> 2013-11-22T17:00:01.817253-05:00 jack systemd[1]: Starting Session 12 of
> user root.
> 2013-11-22T17:00:01.859187-05:00 jack systemd[1]: Started Session 12 of
> user root.
>
> This in what I got in messages, checked all the other logs. Nothing Jack
Did the module rebuild run at all? I wonder if that’s what’s causing
this.
Jim
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Hi,
I have the same issue, when I open the virtual machine with my VMWare Workstation I get the following error:
Unable to change virtual machine power state: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to.
I assume there is a problem with the latest NVIDIA driver (331.20) and kernel 3.11 when it comes to the power management…
If I use the Nouveau driver the virtual machine plays fine - but the problem I have with this is that my second display won’t turn on…
Found the problem. Gnome related. Even though I am running KDE when I installed GFTP and Gparted they installed many Gnome packages. Reinstalled 13.1, everything worked. Installed Gftp and Gparted and VMPlayer stopped working.
Jack
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:16:01 +0000, Jackddg22 wrote:
> Found the problem. Gnome related. Even though I am running KDE when I
> installed GFTP and Gparted they installed many Gnome packages.
> Reinstalled 13.1, everything worked. Installed Gftp and Gparted and
> VMPlayer stopped working.
> Jack
Very strange - thanks for reporting back - hopefully someone else will be
able to identify the specific GNOME component that causes the problem
(and why) and we can get a fix together (or VMware can).
Jim
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Hi
I’m not sure on a relation to gparted. I did an upgrade from a 12.3 with gparted and the first few days vmware-player still ran. Trouble for me began, when I compiled nvidia-driver because of crashes/freezes with nouveau. Vmplayer started, but opening a vm failed with the log mentioned above. Sadly the problem remained after switching back to nouveau.
I use also gnome software.
File “test”
#!/bin/bash
vmplayer /home/msi_user/lnx_data/virtual/win7/win7.vmx
Consolle output:
msi_user@linux-0khj:~/Work> ./test
Logging to /tmp/vmware-msi_user/vmware-modconfig-27586.log
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0: missing action removable-device-0
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1: missing action removable-device-1
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-2: missing action removable-device-2
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0storage1: missing action removable-device-0storage1
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0storage2: missing action removable-device-0storage2
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0-choose-image: missing action removable-device-0-choose-image
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0-edit: missing action removable-device-0-edit
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-connect: missing action removable-device-1-connect
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-nic-bridged: missing action removable-device-1-nic-bridged
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-nic-nat: missing action removable-device-1-nic-nat
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-nic-host-only: missing action removable-device-1-nic-host-only
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-edit: missing action removable-device-1-edit
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-2connect: missing action removable-device-2connect
(vmplayer:27581): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-2-edit: missing action removable-device-2-edit
msi_user@linux-0khj:~/Work> ./test
Logging to /tmp/vmware-msi_user/vmware-modconfig-28472.log
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0: missing action removable-device-0
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1: missing action removable-device-1
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-2: missing action removable-device-2
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0storage1: missing action removable-device-0storage1
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0storage2: missing action removable-device-0storage2
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0-choose-image: missing action removable-device-0-choose-image
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0-edit: missing action removable-device-0-edit
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-connect: missing action removable-device-1-connect
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-nic-bridged: missing action removable-device-1-nic-bridged
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-nic-nat: missing action removable-device-1-nic-nat
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-nic-host-only: missing action removable-device-1-nic-host-only
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-edit: missing action removable-device-1-edit
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-2connect: missing action removable-device-2connect
(vmplayer:28467): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-2-edit: missing action removable-device-2-edit
msi_user@linux-0khj:~/Work>
However, selecting the VM directly in the Player works, as long I don’t start the player from the consolle…
I cannot reproduce your results. vmwareplayer always starts, but the vm does not, not from menu or console or out of a script. This is independent of the user, even root cannot start the VM.
Although the error messages look like that, it is not a problem with the appended devices of the vm, because I get the identical error for a VM with only a single harddisk and no interfaces except localhost
Hey there,
I have the same problem that VMware Player 6.0.1 crashes every time I try to start a VM. I’m using openSUSE 13.1 x86_64 (Kernel 3.11.6-4-desktop) with proprietary NVIDIA driver v331.20.
What I’ve already tried (and has no effect on the crashes):
- disabling the 3D acceleration of the VMs
- decreasing the VMware HW level
- setting VMWARE_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS=yes
- setting VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=yes
My current workaround is to use a patched NVIDIA driver v325.15 [1,2]. Now vmplayer works fine. But I’m a little bit confused because I already used Kernel 3.10 or 3.11 with NVIDIA driver v331.20 on openSUSE 12.3 and everything was fine.
Regards,
Michael
[1] ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/325.15/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-325.15.run
[2] http://cvs.rpmfusion.org/viewvc/checkout/rpms/nvidia-kmod/devel/kernel_v3.11.patch?revision=1.1&root=nonfree