Re: VMware on Debian

[Pollywog <linux-debian@shadypond.com>]

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:28 pm, Jeremy Brooks wrote:

>I run vmware on my Debian machine, with a kernel name of 2.6.10.20050126n,
> seems to work just fine.
>  IIRC, you have to reconfigure it every time you reboot because the vmware
> devices are not recreated by udev.
>
> I use two scripts to handle this for me.  One actually creates the device
> nodes (has to be run as root, I use sudo), the other is a wrapper to
> launch vmware and call the fix script if needed.

I did some Googling after reading your post, using "udev" in the search and I 
found some information indicating that Ubuntu has the same problem (after 
reboots) with VMware but that the problem has been fixed in the Workstation 5 
beta.  I will go with the beta and see if I continue having problems.

thanks

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