Hello, i have installed vmware 11.1 but i can not launch it on tumbleweed with latest kernel. Can someone help me? If i type vmware on terminal it doesn’t return anything, just stops. thanks
On 2015-07-31 14:56, Arjoni wrote:
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> Hello, i have installed vmware 11.1
According to the wikipedia, current version is 11.1.1
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Nitpicking a bit,
11.1.2 is the current version if you just downloaded from VMware.
@OP,
Before anything else, you need to verify your installation is successful.
If you didn’t pay attention to the stdout, you may want to uninstall and re-install this time carefully watching the screen.
In particular, did you install all the prerequisites, most importantly the build files (make gcc) and the kernel headers (kernel-devel)?
TSU
I have version 11.1 (not the latest version) but i have the latest version of tumbleweed and kernel. Yes the install was succcessful and dependecies are installed.
when i launch vmware, it doesn’t give any error at all. it just will not open.
On 2015-07-31 23:26, Arjoni wrote:
> I have version 11.1 (not the latest version) but i have the latest
> version of tumbleweed and kernel. Yes the install was succcessful and
> dependecies are installed.
It is possible that tumbleweed, being bleeding edge, has some change
that the designers of Vmware did not cope with, then, but did later.
Just a posibility.
> when i launch vmware, it doesn’t give any error at all. it just will not
> open.
Are you starting it from a terminal?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Yes i am running it both from terminal and app menu.
On 2015-08-01 12:06, Arjoni wrote:
> Yes i am running it both from terminal and app menu.
Please, then paste the complete sequence in a code tags block, including
initial prompt, and final prompt. Even if it does not print anything. I
have a guess I’d like to confirm.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
arjoni@linux-x17t:~> vmware
arjoni@linux-x17t:~>
On 2015-08-01 15:16, Arjoni wrote:
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> arjoni@linux-x17t:~> vmware
> arjoni@linux-x17t:~>
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Hum. Then my hunch was wrong.
I would then try to do it as root (su -). Grasping at straws.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
I decided to install a fresh Workstation 11 (no license key, 30 day free trial).
Downloaded from
http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/workstation-evaluation
Although you can open up a console later and install your kernel headers when prompted, I recommend installing beforehand to keep things simple
zypper in kernel-devel gcc make
Made the downloaded file executable, then executed it
# chmod +x VMware-Workstation-Full-11.1.2-2780323.x86_64.bundle
# ./VMware-Workstation-Full-11.1.2-2780323.x86_64.bundle
The bundle self-extracted and started running.
A number of questions were asked during the install, I chose…
- Designate a normal User to be able to launch Workstation. Designating a specified User account is also supposed to be related to sharing the Guest machines across multiple machines running Workstation. Not to worry desginating a non-root account, during the install you will be prompted for root credentials as necessary.
When this first stage install completes, click the “Finish” button. Be sure to wait until this first stage completes before clicking the “Finish” button else you may interrupt and this first stage would be incomplete (Maybe re-run?).
Launch the vmware app by simply typing “vmware” in a console. This should work because the default location of the vmware app should be in a well known path (/etc/init.d/) If you didn’t specify a root account above, you can launch using your logged in User, else you may need to “sudo” or “su” before launching vmware. Assuming you launched from a console, you will see the VMware modules build progress both as stdout (console display) as well as a special graphical window. If you didn’t already install the kernel headers as I described above, you will be prompted for the missing kernel headers… Just open up a second console and run the command I described above and the regular install can then continue.
Let it complete, Again, if you launched as a normal User account you will be prompted for root credentials as needed.
If you don’t have a paid Product Key, just click the “Continue” button.
Everything should be working.
Based on what I saw, I’d speculate in your case
- You didn’t install required prerequisites before starting your install. It’s not an install killer but as I described may require some experience to address on the fly.
- You probably didn’t allow the stage 1 install to install completely and it might have been complicated by missing prerequisites. So, my recommendation is to just start over
- Install prerequisites with my zypper command above
- After prerequisties are installed, re-launch the VMware bundle file and let it complete entirely.
- After stage 1 completes, <now> you should be able to launch “vmware” in a console.
TSU
Forgot to mention,
I did that Workstation 11 install on openSUSE 13.2, not TW.
Last time I did something similar on TW when I tried to install gcc, I found that TW had installed some very advanced version of gcc without linking it as a default gcc. If you select option 1 a few times, you’ll successfully downgrade related dependencies and install a reliable, proven gcc.
TSU
On 2015-08-02 00:16, tsu2 wrote:
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> zypper in kernel-devel gcc make
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After installing kernel sources, I always do:
su -
cd /usr/src/linux
make cloneconfig prepare
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
In this case the actual src isn’t required, just the kernel headers.
TSU