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Faolan
April 28th, 2009, 02:04 PM
If you get a lot of modinfo errors like this:

modinfo: could not find module vmmon
modinfo: could not find module vmnet
etc

When trying to start VMware Workstation on Ubuntu 9.04 then move (or delete) all the precompiled binaries from this directory to another location:

/usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary

Once you've moved the files fire up VMware once more and it should start compiling the libraries for you.

I was forced to do this with Ubuntu 9.04 today and is now running fine.

Hope this helps someone!
rundlc
April 29th, 2009, 07:36 PM
Huge help! Thanks!
NDLunchbox
April 29th, 2009, 09:25 PM
I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 and Workstation stopped working. Someone else had a thread about manually recompiling all the modules... scared me. I did what you suggested... still need to do some more testing (including networking and other functionality), but everything seems A-OK so far! Thanks!
Faolan
April 30th, 2009, 09:18 AM
Someone else had a thread about manually recompiling all the modules... scared me.

I prefer to go the easy route instead of faffing around compiling if possible, it was a old trick I found a wee while back.

Glad it's helped people.
Skrekkur
May 7th, 2009, 11:29 AM
Works like a charm. Compiling the modules took under 2 minutes.

Thank you!
bweis
May 10th, 2009, 08:32 AM
If you get a lot of modinfo errors like this:

modinfo: could not find module vmmon
modinfo: could not find module vmnet
etc

When trying to start VMware Workstation on Ubuntu 9.04 then move (or delete) all the precompiled binaries from this directory to another location:

/usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary

Once you've moved the files fire up VMware once more and it should start compiling the libraries for you.

I was forced to do this with Ubuntu 9.04 today and is now running fine.

Hope this helps someone!

Thanks for this but will need step by step instructions. Assume you are dealing with sokmeone who learnt to read this morning

bw
brendan.lefoll
May 13th, 2009, 07:04 AM
Under workstation 6.5.2 build-156735 64bit this is not needed. The install worked perfectly.
mostafa.bazzaz
May 15th, 2009, 08:18 AM
Worked for VMware Workstation 6.5.1 build-126130.
thanks :D
wwynn
May 16th, 2009, 12:10 AM
Please delete.
ROY.G.BIV
August 12th, 2009, 01:58 PM
$ gksudo bash ./VMware-Workstation-6.5.2-156735.i386.bundle

./VMware-Workstation-6.5.2-156735.i386.bundle: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `<'./VMware-Workstation-6.5.2-156735.i386.bundle: line 1: `<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Error</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>'

$ sudo sh VMware-Workstation-6.5.2-156735.i386.bundle

VMware-Workstation-6.5.2-156735.i386.bundle: 1: Syntax error: redirection unexpected


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