vmware player stopped working: NOT_IMPLEMENTED in codeset.c

[wichtounet]

Hi,

Since this morning, I cannot run vmplayer. The last time I run it, about one week ago, it was working well. I've made several updates since this time.

I've rebuild the kernel too, but I've run module-rebuild build.

Whenever I try to launch it, it outputs this error:

[wichtounet]

I tried to unmerge vmware-player vmware-tools and vmware-modules and then emerge then again, but it didn't change anything

[wichtounet]

If I rename the folder containing the virtual machine, I can launch vmplayer, but I cannot open the virtual machine (the same error occurs).

Does that mean that my virtual machine is corrupted ?

Thanks

[wichtounet]

I just tried installing the player from the official bundle, but at the end the error is exactly the same

[wichtounet]

Uwe on stack overflow (http://superuser.com/questions/589501/vmware-player-does-not-start-not-implemented) found the answer for me

It was coming from the last version of dev-libs/icu who seems to be incompatible with vmware.

[anton_kg]

[wichtounet]

I ran again on this problem.

I updated my system and didn't saw that icu was to be updated and I let it do it to update to 51.1. After that vmplayer started crashing again. I tried updating to 51.2 but it didn't change a thing.

I know that the workaround is to disable icu in libxml2, but chromium requires libxml2 with icu use flag, so I'm kind of stuck

Is there a clean workaround to this problem ?

Thanks

[_______0]

when close sauce's rotten there's open sauces out there that do the job.

not trying to be rude but sometimes ppl get mad when they're are told about open source solutions.

/me running qemu {M}(~)1.5.2-r1 flawlessly

[wichtounet]

Thanks. I didn't know about Qemu.

I just tried installing KVM, but my kernel with KVM enabled gives me a black screen once gdm starts

I would love to get rid of Vmware In the past, I've already tried to use Virtualbox, but without success on this particular virtual machine. I can't make the virtual machine by hand because it is distributed by my company with specific software on it for which I don't have the installation files. I will try again to run this virtual machine on virtual box, that would still be better than Vmware.

[i92guboj]

So, at the current state of things (only icu-51.x in the tree), you simply can't run vmware in Gentoo, can you?

[wichtounet]

If you have libxml2 with icu support, for instance because of chromium, that's right you can't.

According to some people, chromium may work without icu, but I don't like bypassing its dependencies very much.

The solution presented by Jason A. Donenfeld in the bug report works, but it is quite ugly, but still better than nothing.

[jwoelper]

Got it to work using icu-51.1 and the "new" product vmware player plus 6 from the vmware web site. Manually installed it using

[grotti]

Hi,.

LD_PRELOAD=/opt/vmware/lib/vmware/lib/libxml2.so.2/libxml2.so.2 vmplayer works for me, with app-emulation/vmware-player-5.0.2.1031769

Br,
Grotti