Monday, December 22, 2008

VMWare Player on Opensuse 11.1

after upgrading to openSUSE 11.1 i had the following error with VMware player.
even after reinstalling.

fezbox:/data/Appz # vmplayer
Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-14605.log
modinfo: could not find module vmmon
modinfo: could not find module vmnet
modinfo: could not find module vmblock
modinfo: could not find module vmci
modinfo: could not find module vsock
modinfo: could not find module vmmon
modinfo: could not find module vmnet
modinfo: could not find module vmblock
modinfo: could not find module vmci
modinfo: could not find module vsock
/usr/bin/vmplayer: line 31: 14605 Segmentation fault "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Player" --icon="vmware-player"

Solution:

Login as root

mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary_old

run
vmplayer


vmware will reconfigure and will run.