vmware machine will not power up after upgrade to gutsy

[petevg at gmail.com]

> |On Monday 03 December 2007, Ben Edwards wrote:
> |> When I try to powe up my virtual machine from vmware I get the
> |> following message.
> |>
> |> Unable to change virtual machine power state: The process exited with an
> |> error: End of error message.
> |>
> |> This is after an upgrade to Gutsy.
>
> I think the problem is that VMware Server hasn't been included with
> Gutsy. I enquired a while back and was told the partners repo wasn't in
> sync yet, and soon would be. It still isn't. I am still on Feisty, and
> waiting !

Running vmware-config.pl with "sudo perl vmware-config.pl" *might*
recompile the right stuff.

You'll need a compiler ("sudo apt-get install gcc") installed for this
to work.

Alternately, vmware's install script is relatively non-scary.  You can
download vmware server here:  http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

Note:  you might want to wait until somebody else confirms the above,
or do some more research before trying my fix.  I installed vmware
from scratch on a fresh Gusty install, and it went very smoothly, but
I'm not sure how the vmware install scripts will interact with an old
Feisty package.

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~PeteVG

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