VMware Workstation rc-update issue

[egghead]

Has anyone come across an issue with getting the vmware services to start at boot time on 3.5?

I've added vmware to the default run level but it never starts:


localhost # /etc/init.d/vmware status
Module vmmon not loaded
Module vmnet not loaded
localhost # rc-update show | grep vmware
vmware | default
localhost #


If I manually invoke /etc/init.d/vmware everything comes up normally

Nothing in /var/log/ to reflect a vmware specific error

localhost # find /var/log -mmin +1 -mmin -60 | xargs cat 2>/dev/null | grep vmware
localhost #

EDIT: Dam typos

[WarraWarra]

Have you tried to add it to the openrc modules list
/etc/conf.d/modules
instead of old
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

just add for vmware and virtualbox to the list old school way not sure about new openrc
vmware
vboxdrv

viewtopic.php?f=59&t=14843&p=84784&hilit=openrc#p84784

[egghead]

Hrmm, I don't think VMware works the same was as virtualbox. I've never had to load the modules as drivers in the past in both sabayon or any other distribution.

[croweland01]

Hi, have you fixed the problem?

Me too... I have the same problem and I don't know how to do.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Well, from egghead's first post it looks to me like the following line needs to be added at the end of the file /etc/conf.d/modules:

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modules="vmmon vmnet"

(If you've already got a line modules="<module1> <module2> <module3>" then just add vmmon and vmnet to the list of modules.)

[croweland01]

I've added but always the same problem:

Module vmmon not loaded
Module vmnet not loaded

and don't start any virtual machine.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Well, I'm not a VMware user, so it's difficult to be specific, but you could try, in addition to the above (i.e. the modules declaration in /etc/conf.d/modules is also necessary), adding (moving?) the two modules to the boot runlevel:

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rc-update del vmmon default
rc-update add vmmon boot
rc-update del vmnet default
rc-update add vmnet boot

Are they also in moduledb, because I think they should be?:

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module-rebuild list

If not, try:

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module-rebuild populate

[croweland01]

Nothing don't work.
Also in suse linux there are the same problems, there they have found this solution:

**** quote suse fix***
May happen that vmware don’t start, in this case as root type:
service vmware-start

Starting openSUSE 11.1 the boot happens so quickly vmware tries to start before the network is up and running.
There is an option to slow things down by disabling parallel boot.

Open YaST > /etc/sysconfig Editor
drill down to System > Boot > RUN_PARALLEL - set the value to no.
Starting with the next (re)boot vmware should load normally.
**** end suse fix ***

ok, I would like to know, for suse how is possible do the same fix for use Vmware Workstation 6.5.1?
Pls help me