VMware community stated that their products don't work on your OS

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Sir I am guilty to say that VMware community stated that their products don’t work on your operating system. I have posted a thread similar to thread posted by me previously regarding installation of vmplayer and workstation. They reported as below.

It is actually unsupported config. opensuse is not supported as a host on Workstation 9 or player 4,5

However, you can try the following. It might work.

  1. Stop the dbus servive.
    /etc/init.d/dbus stop
  2. Start vmware
  3. Strat dbus service
    /etc/init.d/dbus start

If this doesn’t work, try below. Not sure which command is used by openSuse
#/etc/rc.d/hal start
or
#/etc/rc.d/hald start
or
/etc/init.d/haldaemon start
Start vmware
If this works, activate/enable the hal daemon from Yast (9. Administrator Settings (YaST) - Introduction to the YaST Setup Tool)

I have followed above instructions but not succeeded.

Then I have posted that there is no file named vmware-config.pl in /usr/bin directory then their response is shown below.

vmware-config.pl cannot be used since Workstation 6.5. It does not exist anymore in recent versions.

For Workstation 7.x and later you need to use the command below to reconfigure the software. Run the command from root
vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

I have followed above step even not succeeded.

Also, I would recommend you to try a supported Host OS on the physical machine. Even if you succeed to make it to work on openSuse 12, you will still see abonormal behavior during using Workstation. That might included intermittent crashes, features not working, etc.

You can verify the compatibility from the VMware Compatibility guide

VMware Compatibility Guide: Guest/Host Search

Sir actually I love your operating system a lot than any other linux distro. Now the only solution ie., VMware player or workstation to make work is install another distro like fedora which I do not like.

So kindly help me to successfully run either vmplayer or VMware workstation on your OS by testing the above products yourself.

Regards,
Rupesh.

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I run Workstation without issue. Have since version 4.
Currently running 9.1 on OpenSuSE 12.2. I haven’t had
to do anything special to make it run, just download
the installer, su to root, chmod 777 on the .bin file,
execute it and let it run.

Make sure you have kernel source installed for your running
kernel before you run the installer.

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On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:16:03 +0000, rupeshforu3 wrote:

> So kindly help me to successfully run either vmplayer or VMware
> workstation on your OS by testing the above products yourself.

Note that this forum is staffed by volunteers - indeed, the openSUSE
project is a project of volunteers.

It’s a community effort.

That said, I have run VMware products on openSUSE since 2003. Generally
speaking, they work just fine (there have been occasions where compiling
the necessary drivers has been more difficult, but in general, recent
releases have run very smoothly).

If you’re looking for a virtualization solution, you might also look at
VirtualBox. I left my previous job in 2011, and my VMware license was
allocated to my former employer and I was unable to afford my own
license, so I switched.

In general, VirtualBox works as well as VMware and provides most of the
same functionality for free (in particular, multiple snapshots and linked
clones, something VMware’s free player application doesn’t do).

If your goal is to virtualize something, I would suggest looking at your
end goal rather than needing to use a particular product for it. :slight_smile:

You will find a number of threads here about how to get VMware running -
you might start with those. If those don’t help, then provide the output
and specific error messages you get (don’t just say “it doesn’t work” -
there are lots of ways that software can “not work”, and we don’t want to
play “20 questions” to find out which particular way your attempt failed).

Jim

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On 2013-01-31 16:16, rupeshforu3 wrote:
>
> Sir I am guilty to say that VMware community stated that their products
> don’t work on your operating system. I have posted a thread similar to
> thread posted by me previously regarding installation of vmplayer and
> workstation. They reported as below.

First, please notice that in this forum we are just users (volunteers)
helping other users, so please no “sir”. This is not an official support
channel, there is no such thing.

Then, VMware as a commercial product probably only supports other
commercial products - like SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, or SLES for short.

However, that said, their products work fine with openSUSE, both as host
or as guest. For example, I run vmplayer version 5 just fine.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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You might be missing some things that VMware player needs become root then try this:

# zypper in cmake kernel-source kernel-devel kernel-syms gcc gcc-c++ linux-glibc-devel binutils gcc47 libgcc47 libgcc47-32bit libgcj47 libvmtools0 open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-gui vmware-guest-kmp-desktop
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I have requested help from you several times. I have posted the output produced by installation
command and also I have podted the log file produced during the installation of vmplayer. Please suggest a solution on examining my previous post regarding to vmware installation.

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On 2013-02-02 08:56, rupeshforu3 wrote:
>
> I have requested help from you several times. I have posted the output
> produced by installation
> command and also I have podted the log file produced during the
> installation of vmplayer. Please suggest a solution on examining my
> previous post regarding to vmware installation.

And I answered with questions to which you have not replied. Do you
really want help?

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:56:02 +0000, rupeshforu3 wrote:

> I have requested help from you several times. I have posted the output
> produced by installation command and also I have podted the log file
> produced during the installation of vmplayer. Please suggest a solution
> on examining my previous post regarding to vmware installation.

This is the problem with reposting the same question multiple times
rather than asking in the first place you started the discussion.

Please stick to ONE thread for this problem so all the information is in
one place and those trying to help you don’t have to search all over the
place for the various bits and pieces of the puzzle.

This is why I asked you both in the forum and via PM to keep to a single
thread.

Thanks,

Jim

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Went to Virtualbox when VMWare Workstation was up for renewal/upgrade and never looked back.

What I want to add: If you have a spare workstation, try VMWare’s ESXi. It is free and these days it supports a lot of standard computer hardware.

Uwe

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On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:36:25 +0000, Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:

> Went to Virtualbox when VMWare Workstation was up for renewal/upgrade
> and never looked back.
>
> What I want to add: If you have a spare workstation, try VMWare’s ESXi.
> It is free and these days it supports a lot of standard computer
> hardware.

ESXi is a good option, but I think while they’ve expanded the hardware
support, it’s still got some limitations. But at least it’s not a
handful of specific enterprise-class SCSI controllers and that’s it for
storage these days. :slight_smile:

Jim

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> ESXi is a good option, but I think while they’ve expanded the hardware
> support, it’s still got some limitations. But at least it’s not a
> handful of specific enterprise-class SCSI controllers and that’s it for
> storage these days. :slight_smile:

It has improved a great deal, I actually was successful installing it last
time I tried. w00t! (first time out of 5 different attempts on commodity
hardware)

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On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:15:51 +0000, GofBorg wrote:

>> ESXi is a good option, but I think while they’ve expanded the hardware
>> support, it’s still got some limitations. But at least it’s not a
>> handful of specific enterprise-class SCSI controllers and that’s it for
>> storage these days. :slight_smile:
>
> It has improved a great deal, I actually was successful installing it
> last time I tried. w00t! (first time out of 5 different attempts on
> commodity hardware)

I may have to give it another try on my spare desktop. :slight_smile:

Jim

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similar thread has been posted by others. In that thread you responded to uninstall haldaemon. When I searched the directorory /etc/init.d I have found two files starting with hal. Are there any other packages need to be uninstalled in order to run VMware workstation successfully.

Regards,
Rupesh.

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On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 06:16:02 +0000, rupeshforu3 wrote:

> similar thread has been posted by others. In that thread you responded
> to uninstall haldaemon.

Well, no, /I/ didn’t, but removing the files isn’t the same as
uninstalling the daemon.

In my past experience, all that’s needed to get Workstation running is to
install the kernel development tools (and kernel-source).

Then you run VMware Workstation as root so it can build the modules and
install them.

Then exit it as root and run it as a normal user.

Jim

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openSUSE Forums Administrator
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