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ChrisAbela 10-22-2011 10:06 AM
Installation of VMware-Player-4 on Slackware 13.37 32 bit
 
Installation of VMware-Player-4.0.0-471780.i386.bundle on my (almost) default Slackware 13.37 32 bit is failing and it is not giving me much hints:

Quote:
Rolling back VMware USB Arbitrator 8.4.18
Deconfiguring...
[########################################### ] 62%All configuration information is about to be removed. Do you wish to
keep your configuration files? [yes]: no

Uninstalling VMware Installer 2.0
Deconfiguring...
[######################################################################] 100%
Installation was unsuccessful.
It fails also in an root X session. Does anybody has any experience on how to deal with this?

disturbed1 10-22-2011 10:17 AM
as root -
sh VMware-$NAME-$VERSION.bundle --console --ignore-errors

VmMare expects certain -isms from other distros to be present. This allows VMware to gracefully error on non critical events.

ChrisAbela 10-22-2011 10:36 AM
That just worked! Thank you!

disturbed1 10-22-2011 10:52 AM
You'll have issues if you install the VMware Tools on Slackware guests.
VMware expects to see an /etc/pam.d directory, (you can just create this empty directory).

Theres a flaw is in the installation script which calls mkinitrd -h (expecting it to return help). On Slackware mkinitrd -h specifies the hibernation location. When/IF you decided to use VMware Tools on a Slackware guest, you can edit the installation $NAME.pl file, and replace mkinitrd -h with mkinitrd --help.

Or, optionally, not use VMware tools at all. Slackware already includes a mouse and graphics driver for VMware guests. You will have to disable compositing in Xorg though if you expect to run KDE on the guest VM. Search this forum, its been posted a few times :)

ChrisAbela 10-23-2011 02:20 PM
Not only is LQ answering my questions, it is also anticipating them :-)

Yes I did try KDE (as it happens to be my favorite DE) and it crashed. Nevertheless, I am not fussy when I am working on a Virtual Machine and I am happy also with XFCE, but since you mentioned it, I persisted. So after some investigations, I started XFCE, then ran:

$ /usr/bin/systemsettings

and disabled all the desktop effects.

This solved it.

geep999 12-19-2011 02:44 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by disturbed1 (Post 4505232)
as root -
sh VMware-$NAME-$VERSION.bundle --console --ignore-errors

VmMare expects certain -isms from other distros to be present. This allows VMware to gracefully error on non critical events.
I can report that this also works on Slackware 13.37 x86_64 with VMware-Player-4.0.1-528992.x86_64.bundle

Cheers,
Peter

caduqued 07-15-2012 04:40 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by disturbed1 (Post 4505232)
as root -
sh VMware-$NAME-$VERSION.bundle --console --ignore-errors

VmMare expects certain -isms from other distros to be present. This allows VMware to gracefully error on non critical events.
Fantastic.... Just to let you all know, this also helps to get vmware-player 4.0.4 working on a Slackware64 13.37

Great!!!

pino_otto 12-07-2012 03:18 AM
This solution also works on Slackware 14.0 with VM Player 5.0.1

# sh VMware-Player-5.0.1-894247.i386.bundle --console --ignore-errors


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