VMware Server : recently stopped working on Feisty

[Tony Arnold]

Vince,

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> update: 
> 
> I tried re-installing VMware server via Synaptic, and when I clicked
> to see the terminal output, it showed some problems:
> 
> **********
> Starting VMware services
>    Virtual machine monitor:  FAILED
>    Virtual Ethernet:         FAILED
> Module vmnet is not loaded. Please verify that it is loaded before
> running this script.
> 
> invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-server, action "start" failed
> ***************
> 
> I guess the latest Feisty updates broke something that keeps the VMware
> services from starting :o(
> 
> I will report a bug on Launchpad, after all it's an Ubuntu/Canonical
> supplied package, an important one at that, so hopefully they will be
> willing to fix it promptly... crossing fingers...
> 
> As a temporary workaround, I downloaded the latest VMware server
> directly from the VMware website, but alas, the configure script fails
> too ! :-/ Not looking good :-/

Very odd. My vmware server is still running fine. I justy shut down a VM
and powered it up again just to be sure.

Have you tried re-running the configure script,
vmware-config-network.pl? If you've lost vmnet, for some reason, this
should re-establish it.

Regards,
Tony.
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