[closed] VMware Is Non-functional

jk121960 · Last edited by jk121960 on Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:28 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi, and I apologize as this is a related post to this one that I made.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-963382.html
but I have to get VMWare running I need it for my work, I found the other posts and the fix, which I tried but I don't know what to do about the resulting dependencies that are involved.
This being the down grade of dev-libs/icu to version 50.1.2 I attempted to do so but a number of dependency issues arose,
I also tried another fix of changing the vmx references to ASCII instead of UTF-8, but I didn't find the references in the configuration that he spoke of.
I was hoping that someone had come up with a different fix as this bug has been around for a number of months now according to reports.

Any help is appreciated

thanks

--jerry

PS I am using a x86_64 from the latest Gentoo release

nlsa8z6zoz7lyih3ap · Guru Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 388 Location: Canada

What vmware package are you trying to install?

Here is what I have:

jk121960 · Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:03 pm Post subject:

It seems like your installed vmware is a couple of versions back, here is my eix, I need to find an answer to this because I use it to work.

thanks

[root@zenlinux ~]# eix -I vmware
[I] app-emulation/vmware-modules
Available versions: ~238.6 ~264.5 (~)271.2 {{kernel_linux pax_kernel}}
Installed versions: 271.2(03:32:48 AM 07/02/2013)(kernel_linux -pax_kernel)
Homepage: http://www.vmware.com/
Description: VMware kernel modules

[I] app-emulation/vmware-player
Available versions: ~3.1.6.744570^fs ~4.0.5.893925^s (~)5.0.2.1031769^s {{cups doc +vmware-tools}}
Installed versions: 5.0.2.1031769^s(03:32:31 AM 07/02/2013)(vmware-tools -cups -doc)
Homepage: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Description: Emulate a complete PC on your PC without the usual performance overhead of most emulators

[I] app-emulation/vmware-tools
Available versions: ~8.4.9.744570^m ~8.8.4.744019^m ~8.8.5.893925^m (~)9.2.3.1031769^m {{vmware_guest_freebsd vmware_guest_linux vmware_guest_netware vmware_guest_solaris vmware_guest_winPre2k vmware_guest_windows}}
Installed versions: 9.2.3.1031769^m(03:28:01 AM 07/02/2013)(-vmware_guest_freebsd -vmware_guest_linux -vmware_guest_netware -vmware_guest_solaris -vmware_guest_winPre2k -vmware_guest_windows)
Homepage: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Description: VMware Tools for guest operating systems

nlsa8z6zoz7lyih3ap · Guru Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 388 Location: Canada

Sorry I can't help you, except to ask if the versions that I have installed would be good enough for your purposes?

Since what I have installed works for me and meets my needs I have masked all of the higher versions.

jk121960 · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:29 am Post subject:

Never got this fixed I can only use windows vm's that are UTF-8 -> windows 8 and server 2012

proteusx · Guru Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 338

I had the same problem and I found this bug report helpfull.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465126
Now all my vms work again.