VM ware version issues

Hi all,
I’ve been following a number of forum posts trying to get VMWare to work. It started last night with installing the player, thinking that was what i needed. I followed the install guid on the wiki but could not get vmware-any-any to run (not surprisingly Now) But the player did open and run my VM. Then my computer crashed from heat exhaustion, as separate issue, and on reboot I was unable to get the vm to turn on. It was late and I didn’t write down the error.

Today I’ve been installing and installing different combinations of versions of vmware (not the player) and the any-any thing (what is it any way) I final got the VMware Server Console 1.0.6 build-91891 to install with** vmware-any-any-update117d **(Thanks Magic31, SUSE 11 and VMWARE Server 1.0.6 - openSUSE Forums)

VMstarted and it was glorious. And then i powered on the same vm that ran last night.

Unable to change virtual machine power state: The process exited with an error:
vmxvmdb: Index name being generated from config file
POST(no connection): Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 138.0, got 168.0.
You have an incorrect version of the `vmmon' kernel module.
Try reinstalling VMware Server.

POST(no connection): Failed to initialize monitor device.

Failed to initialize VM.
End of error message. 

Can someone please tell me the combination to this lock?

This is what I have:
uname -a
Linux 2.6.25.18-0.2-pae #1 SMP 2008-10-21 16:30:26 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
running on hp nx9420 1GB ram

gcc gcc-c++ and others just in case you see a conflict
gcc43-objc-4.3.1_20080507-6.1
gcc-obj-c+±4.3-39.1
gcc43-c+±4.3.1_20080507-6.1
gcc-4.3-39.1
gcc43-obj-c+±4.3.1_20080507-6.1
libgcc43-4.3.1_20080507-6.1
gcc43-4.3.1_20080507-6.1
gcc-objc-4.3-39.1
gcc-c+±4.3-39.1

Kernel source and headers
linux-kernel-headers-2.6.25-8.1
kernel-xen-2.6.25.18-0.2
kernel-pae-2.6.25.18-0.2
nfs-kernel-server-1.1.2-9.2
kernel-source-2.6.25.18-0.2
kernel-syms-2.6.25.18-0.2

There is mounting pressure to get this vm to work. I maintain some vb6 code and am going on a trip next week. If i can’t get windows up I’m going to have to uninstall suse

Also: If someone is looking for the vmware-any-any here is another download spot. Hope google sees it
Files - vmkernelnewbies | Google Groups

On 11/13/2008 rtpth wrote:
> POST(no connection): Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting
> 138.0, got 168.0.

Run vmware-config.pl again and see if that fixes it.
I don’t understand why you need the any-any patch for VMWare Server 1 on Opensuse 11. It should work without it.

Uwe

Yeah I’ve run that .pl a few times, i’ve uninstantiated Vm reinstalled. How do i start over? It worked once. How do I undo all the things that the runme.pl did?

  • rtpth,

there should be vmware-uninstall.pl

HTH
Uwe