vmware player won't start a vm after reboot

user · November 17, 2009, 11:18pm

Hello folks,

i’m running OS 11.2 64 bit and installed vmware-player 3.0 (by bundle). It runs fine till i shut down the pc. After the next start the player starts, but refuses to start a virtual machine (it says “Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory…”). I had the same message after first installation but then i installed the missing modules (make etc) and it worked fine. If i de-install the vm-player and reinstall it, everything works fine as long as i do not shutdown the pc?

Is there any help?

Thanks in advance!

malcolmlewis · November 17, 2009, 11:40pm

Hi
Sounds like the vmmon isn’t set to start on boot. Is there
a /etc/init.d/vmware (or vm something)? I use workstation 6.5.2 here,
but should be similar.

If there is try (change name as required);


sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start

If that works, the use YaST runlevel editor to enable the service at
boot time.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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user · November 18, 2009, 7:41pm

Hi!

it works! Thank you very much!

kistej · November 18, 2009, 10:14pm

“en i installed the missing modules (make etc) and it worked fine.”

can you tell me what components did you install exactly?

I have installed kernel-source, make, but before the first start it still complains for “kernel headers 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop”, then it stops.

so…how can I go on?

thx

user · November 18, 2009, 11:42pm

Hm…

if i only would remeber exactly

it was the gcc and the gcc++ compiler, but there was something more…

I found that hint in a support-forum by pasting the whole error message into google…

malcolmlewis · November 19, 2009, 12:20am

Hi
Normally it’s make, gcc, kernel-source, linux-kernel-headers and
kernel-syms.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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kistej · November 19, 2009, 8:27am

make, kernel-source is installed.
linux-kernel-headers…hmm…I think it is by default,but let’s check.
kernel-syms - never heard before so I have to check it…(and google it what is this exactly)
gcc - from gcc there are 32 and 64 bit version if I am right. Do we know which is used? i am running 64bit OS but i am not sure VMware player install is satisfied with only the 64bit gcc…

I will check it later cause at the moment I had to boot XP to be able to work
I will be back with the result.

kistej · November 19, 2009, 4:44pm

sooo, Gentlemen, the winner is:

kernel-syms

this was the only missing module. I have installed it (with its dependencies together) and it is fine now.

So it is solved, thanks a lot.

Over.

qu1nn · November 29, 2009, 4:11am

Hello,

I got the error “kernel headers 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop were not found” and I used your suggestion of adding kernel-syms via YAST.

that worked, however I am now getting an error when VMware Player is trying to build the kernel as I get the error “Unable to build kernel module”, per the log file i am missing some applications “Can’t get required utilities make, tar, echo, grep, rmmod, insmod”

any suggestions as I really come up with alot of applications when I search in YAST for the required utilities.

regards
qu1nn

malcolmlewis · November 29, 2009, 4:34am

Hi
In YaST->Software->Software Management, select the ‘View’ tab (defaults
to search). If you select patterns and scroll down the list there is a
pattern called ‘Base Development’, and ‘Linux kernel Development’
select those and install. This should provide all the requirements.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.37-0.1-default
up 3:21, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.16
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.18

qu1nn · November 30, 2009, 1:53am

Thanks,
adding those packages did the trick.

now the only thing is that when I tried to install XP I got a VMWare tools error 1719, windows installer service could not be accessed… trying to bang that one out now
regards and thanks
qu1nn

qu1nn · December 1, 2009, 3:20am

Figured it out, something funky… just reinstalled the vmware tools on the guest XP… later I still couldn’t get the USB working, there was (2) different sections in Device Manager that had USB (one was unknown, the other was vmware)…so I deleted the unknown, rebooted and everything works great.

qu1nn