[SOLVED] Installation of VMware-Player-4 on Slackware 13.37 32 bit

ChrisAbela · 10-22-2011, 10:06 AM

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

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

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