Yeh the first time I did it, it was kinda rough, but the second time was way easy and been running ever since, I run Fedora(for Nagios) and FreeBSD(DNS, MySQL replication etc) within it.
Back to the question(sorry OP not trying to steal thread) I asked at the beggining of this thread, why the any to any patch... I run a very new kernel > 2.6.15 usually and never had issues. Just asking...don't know if there is someting I am missing err.

@Chuck56 When you reboot, do you have to rerun vmware-config.pl or? I can't seem to have vmmon and the devices load, although they are present... just asking.

You need an any-any update if your running a new kernel. 2.6.15 is hardly new. vmware craps out when trying to build the modules if your running 2.6.20 or 2.6.21... Thus the any-any update fixes this.

Shows how in tune I stay with kernel series. Been on 2.6.15 for about a year on my desktop. I do have 2.6.21 on my laptop....woohoo!

That happened to me on a couple of my early installs. It doesn't happen anymore. I don't remember the specific fix but my notes around that time had me focused on PAM by creating links to the VMWare PAM files ( pam_unix_acct.so & pam_unix_auth ) after adding the directory /lib/security. It also may have been the way I set up the init.d directories under rc.d instead of directly under etc.

I've gotten VMWare to work... I had to do a:
and also I left the init.d files in UNTIL After I got it running. Securities I had a tough time with as I connect from other machines and outside of my network but I have it working =D -- Works after reboot too.

the above script looks promising too.
(I think I have all my steps documented if interested.)

@Micah If you want to post your steps that would be cool, I have vmware working just have to rerun configure after every reboot(which thankfully is not often), but I think with what you and Chuck56 have said it is a pam issue, I can figure it out over the long weekend.
I followed this guide the last time I set it up.

Thank you.

On the Slackware newsgroup I saw a very good and clear tutorial about setting up VMWare Server on Slackware 11: http://slackworld.berlios.de/2007/vmware.html

Hello,

Sorry to repost to a couple week old thread. I had a chance to reconfigure vmware server on my desktop and this time, did everything under /etc/rc.d and this fixed the problem of needing to recompile after reboot.

I also had a chance to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.21 and indeed needed to run the any-to-any patch.

Just wanted to update, thanks all.

For vmware, you need vmware-any-any-updateX

Google that or try this link

http://www.vmware.com/community/thre...threadID=26693

Not sure what the point of that is?

We've already covered this, to both of you... He is talking about the any-any update you already aplied. In this case, X = 110

I know we did, thats why I asked why it was being covered again.
I simply added to the post what I did to fix recompiles after reboots, and reiterated what you said about the any to any patch.