VMWare player error: Could not open /dev/vmmon

i got the following error when i tried to reopen vmware on Opensuse 11.2 host:




1. error screen
Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.
2. error screen
Failed to initialize monitor device.
3. error screen
The virtual machine is busy.

here (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/245998) explains the reason as :

From what I've read, this happens on OpenSUSE. VMware comes with some pre-built binaries which somehow don't work on this OS. So you're deleting them, and by running that tool they are built again, this time for your system.

and the solution is to execute following commands:

sudo mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old

sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all --appname="VMware Player" --icon="vmware-player"

VMWare kernel module updater at startup

after accomplishing this (http://hilaltarakci.blogspot.com/2011/07/vmware-installation-error-unknown.html), this time kernel module updater dialog comes at startup (with an empty location field).

according to http://tr.opensuse.org/Setting_up_VMware_on_SUSE_Linux, i installed those with yast:

gcc
gcc-c++
kernel-source
kernel syms
make


btw, learning suse version: more /etc/SuSE-release

This time there was a conflict between wanted kernel(2.6.31.14-0.4) and my kernel(2.6.31.14.-0.8). (kernel version mismatch) So, i downgraded the kernel to 2.6.31.14-0.4 and problem solved..

VMWare installation error: unknown encoding: ISO-8859-1

During VMWare installation on opensuse 11.2, i got this error:


SyntaxError: ('unknown encoding: ISO-8859-1', ('/usr/lib/vmware-installer/1.1/python/lib/sqlite3/__init__.py', 0, 0, None))



installation file is: VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle

http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=37046 says that this error is due to system local settings is Turkish.

sudo LANG=en ./VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle  command worked for me..

Vmware

I use vmware for my homework project. So here is some useful links:

http://www.chip.com.tr/konu/Cift-isletim-sistemi_2445.html (in Turkish)

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/install_ws.html