From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 22 6: 2:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lana.mycoh.ukrnet.net (petrovich.kiev.ua [212.26.128.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51BCE37BFEF for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 06:02:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pmail@lana.mycoh.ukrnet.net) Received: from localhost (pmail@localhost) by lana.mycoh.ukrnet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA73051 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 16:01:38 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from pmail@lana.mycoh.ukrnet.net) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 16:01:38 +0300 (EEST) From: Serge Negodyuck To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMWare 2, then VMWare 1 - Ack! In-Reply-To: <20000521182756.A10530@onsea.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 May 2000, Cliff Rowley wrote: > Greetings. > > I was just getting used to playing around with vmware1, after finally getting around to using it, and I discovered vmware2. I deinstalled vmware1 and immediately upgraded, and failed miserably. > > When starting vmware2, I get the following: > > ----------- > Error: > Cannot open vmware executable file. > Possibly an installation error? > Cannot create splash screen > ----------- > > And when trying to run a vm: > > Could not open /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/vmm > > I guessed vmware2 may be broken under 4.0-STABLE as it stands, so I deinstalled that and reinstalled vmware1. > > Exactly the same thing happens. I've deinstalled and reinstalled a few times, and I've cleaned up everything I've found relating to vmware, and still it doesnt work. > > Any ideas? I've searched the archives, and noone seems to answer these questions. > > Thanks in advance. Have you done this: Add following line to /etc/fstab: "linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0" And than type "mount -a". It really helped me in this trouble. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message