I have reinstalled the vmware, running the config script with the root account. The script says:
Quote:
The configuration of VMWare Workstation 4.0.5 build-6036 for linux for this running kernel completed successfully
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This is the latest version of VMWare, downloaded yesterday.
After installing, I reboot my machine. I noticed the following message during booting:
"Finding module depnedencies: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4..20 - 20.9smp/misc/vmmon.o"
No other error or warning.
No I start VMWare
1. type vmware
- GUI displayed
2. Click 'New Virtual Machine'
- Wizzard comes up
3. Virtual Machine Configuration
- select 'Typical'
4. Guest Operating System
- select 'Windows XP Professional'
5. Virtual Machine Name
- type 'XPpro'
- target folder is /home/myuseraccount/
6. Network Connection
- 'Use bridged networking'
7. click the finish buttion
8. click the 'Power on' button
- get the XP hint regardings xp registration
9. activate 'never sho this hint again'
10. click ok
--> System crash
Now I reboot my machine, and noticed the following message:
"rm: cannot remove '/var/run/vmware/myuseraccount': Is a directory"
Here is the logfile after the first crash:
Using log file /tmp/vmware-myuseraccount/ui-4238.log
VMHSRunUtilFileLsJob: error compiling regex with pattern *: Invalid preceding regular expression
DISKLIB-LINK : "/home/myuseraccount/XPpro/XPpro.vmdk" : creation successful.
DISKLIB-LIB : DB: set operation 'geometry.cylinders' = '8322'.
DISKLIB-DDB : geometry.cylinders
DISKLIB-LIB : DB: set operation 'geometry.heads' = '16'.
DISKLIB-DDB : geometry.heads
DISKLIB-DDB : geometry.cylinders
DISKLIB-LIB : DB: set operation 'geometry.sectors' = '63'.
DISKLIB-DDB : geometry.sectors
DISKLIB-DDB : geometry.heads
DISKLIB-DDB : geometry.cylinders
DISKLIB-LIB : DB: set operation 'adapterType' = 'ide'.
DISKLIB-DDB : adapterType
DISKLIB-DDB : geometry.sectors
DISKLIB-DDB : geometry.heads
DISKLIB-DDB : geometry.cylinders
DISKLIB-LIB : DB: set operation 'virtualHWVersion' = '3'.
DISKLIB-DDB : virtualHWVersion
DISKLIB-DDB : geometry.cylinders
DISKLIB-DDB : geometry.heads
DISKLIB-DDB : geometry.sectors
DISKLIB-DDB : adapterType
VmdbVmCfg_UpdateFile: Could not load dictionary file /home/myuseraccountXPpro/XPpro.vmx: Unable to get information about file "/home/myuseraccount/XPpro/XPpro.vmx": No such file or directory.
Now I tried to start the vmware the second time. Select the XPpro.vmx and klick "Power On" -> crashed.
Demonbane, you mention that smp kernel could be this issue. I will try to setup it without smp, but it can't really a solution for me.
Any further help would be great. Thank you.