After Updater, VMWare won't launch

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I’m running OpenSuse 10.3 which I have preferred for almost everything. However, there are “just a couple” of applications that I need that require XP, and I couldn’t get Wine or Xen to work, so I have been using VMWare Workstation. It has exceeded my expectations.

Two days ago I noticed the openSUSE updater was reminding me it had 8 mandatory updates, and it had been some time since I had updated. After running them and re-booting, VMWare Workstation no longer works. I click on the icon, I get the “busy” mouse for a few seconds and then it does… nothing. I can’t find any kind of error message anywhere. I checked in /var/log/messages, and I don’t see anything there different from before I ran the update, except that now during boot I’m also getting warning messages that my processor doesn’t support CPU Frequency Management.

Yesterday afternoon there were four more updates. I ran them on the off chance they might fix the problem. No dice.

So here are the questions:

Is this a known problem or an obvious issue?
Is there somewhere VMWare might be logging errors?
Can I roll back the updates?
Can I at least find out what the updates were?

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  • Jimmus,

there was probably a kernel update, hence you need to recompile the VMWare kernel modules. Open a console, become root, then run vmware-config.pl

Uwe

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Well, that did it.

I was hoping it would be this simple.

Thank you very much, Uwe.

Jimmus

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It looks like with VMWare workstation 6.5 that if you apply a kernel patch vmware will recompile on its own. When you launch vmware workstation 6.5 after applying a kernel patch it will rerun the setup wizard and then you are good to go.