Re: [open-vm-tools-devel] VMWare Workstatiosn / 2.6.27 kernels

[Dominique L. <Dom...@TM...>]

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 09:59 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> So a little bit better... just yet: /etc/init.d/vmware start fails on
> loading all of the modules. It seems not to be happy with this setup
> yet.

Just a follow up on this:
I had to modify the script /etc/init.d/vmware;

the change was like this:
vmwareLoadModule() {
   /sbin/insmod -s -f "/lib/modules/`uname
-r`/kernel/drivers/misc/$1.ko" || exit 1
   return 0
}

The line with insmod did not contain kernel/drivers/misc, but only misc.
Thus it failed. With this change now applied, vmware seems to start up
finally and machines seem to boot including network access.

Why not simply use "/sbin/modprobe $1" There? This would take care of it
all in my opinion.

Wohoo ;)

Dominique