[SOLVED] VMWare Workstation 9.0.2 / vmplayer won't start

[doktor5000]

Hi,

i have installed Vmware Workstation 9.0.2 on mageia 3 beta 4 and it keeps crashing it wont even start.

Any help what can be cause of that issue?

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Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-modconfig-12803.log
filename:       /lib/modules/3.8.5-desktop-1.mga3/misc/vmmon.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     720B99362854B538D7E9A9A
depends:       
vermagic:       3.8.5-desktop-1.mga3 SMP mod_unload modversions
PANIC /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/unicode/unicodeCommon.c:330
Aborted

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2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| I120: Log for VMware Workstation pid=13905 version=9.0.2 build=build-1031769 option=Release
2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| I120: The process is 64-bit.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| I120: Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| I120: Host is Linux 3.8.5-desktop-1.mga3 Mageia 3
2013-04-01T23:50:17.605+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Using GTK 2.24.16
2013-04-01T23:50:17.610+01:00| vthread-3| I120: UTIL: Change file descriptor limit from soft 1024,hard 4096 to soft 4096,hard 4096.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.610+01:00| vmui| I120: Msg_Reset:
2013-04-01T23:50:17.610+01:00| vmui| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.610+01:00| vmui| I120: ----------------------------------------
2013-04-01T23:50:17.610+01:00| vmui| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/settings. Using default values.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| I120: Msg_Reset:
2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/home/mimorph/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| I120: ----------------------------------------
2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /home/mimorph/.vmware/config. Using default values.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| I120: Msg_Reset:
2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/home/mimorph/.vmware/preferences": No such file or directory.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| I120: ----------------------------------------
2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| I120: PREF Failed to load user preferences.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| W110: PID: 13905, log output: /tmp/vmware-mimorph/vmware-ui-13905.log
2013-04-01T23:50:17.611+01:00| vmui| I120: OBJLIB-LIB : Objlib initialized.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.680+01:00| vmui| I120: HAL05LoadHALLibraries: Could not dlopen libhal.so.1.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.681+01:00| vmui| I120: HAL04LoadHALLibraries: Could not dlopen libhal.so.0.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: UUID: Unable to open /dev/mem: Permission denied
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: UUID: Invalid gethostid routine. Value = 7F0100.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Unicode_AllocWithLength: Couldn't convert invalid buffer [mishipon] from ASCII to Unicode.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: PANIC /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/unicode/unicodeCommon.c:330
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace:
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[0] 00007fff1e8f30a0 rip=00007f9f3b605d7c rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=00007f9f3b605b50 r12=00007f9f3b712f03 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[1] 00007fff1e8f30c0 rip=00007f9f3b36f3b8 rbx=00007f9f497e2728 rbp=00007fff1e8f364a r12=00007f9f3b712f03 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[2] 00007fff1e8f34f0 rip=00007f9f3b36f52d rbx=00007f9f4c2d87c0 rbp=00007fff1e8f364a r12=0000000000000007 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[3] 00007fff1e8f35d0 rip=00007f9f3b377290 rbx=00007f9f4c2d87c0 rbp=00007fff1e8f364a r12=0000000000000007 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[4] 00007fff1e8f35f0 rip=00007f9f3b35e5a4 rbx=00007fff1e8f3a61 rbp=00007fff1e8f3c4c r12=00007fff1e8f3c4c r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[5] 00007fff1e8f3bc0 rip=00007f9f3b35f3dd rbx=00007f9f4c2d87a0 rbp=00007fff1e8f3c4c r12=00007fff1e8f3c4c r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[6] 00007fff1e8f3c40 rip=00007f9f3b61e146 rbx=00007fff1e8f3c4c rbp=0000000000000004 r12=00007fff1e8f3c4c r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[7] 00007fff1e8f3d00 rip=00007f9f3b61e2bd rbx=00007f9f4a22f6a8 rbp=00000000ffffffff r12=0000000000000000 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[8] 00007fff1e8f3d60 rip=00007f9f3b61e64e rbx=00007f9f4c0780c0 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007f9f4c0780c0 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[9] 00007fff1e8f3d70 rip=00007f9f3b5a9381 rbx=00007f9f4c0780c0 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007f9f4c0780c0 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[10] 00007fff1e8f4020 rip=00007f9f3b58f06e rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=00007f9f4c2d7cc0 r12=00007f9f4c0780c0 r13=0000000000000000 r14=00007fff1e8f4ed8 r15=00007f9f3a5ff320
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[11] 00007fff1e8f4eb0 rip=00007f9f3b6179a8 rbx=0000000000000001 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007f9f4c077e90 r13=0000000000000000 r14=00007f9f3a5ff320 r15=00007fff1e8f5068
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[12] 00007fff1e8f5040 rip=00007f9f38315056 rbx=00007fff1e8f5610 rbp=00007f9f4c077b90 r12=00007fff1e8f5610 r13=00007fff1e8f5100 r14=00007fff1e8f5838 r15=00007fff1e8f56c0
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[13] 00007fff1e8f50a0 rip=00007f9f38320edc rbx=00007fff1e8f5630 rbp=00007f9f4c077b90 r12=00007fff1e8f5610 r13=00007fff1e8f5100 r14=00007fff1e8f5838 r15=00007fff1e8f56c0
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[14] 00007fff1e8f5580 rip=00007f9f38322496 rbx=00007fff1e8f5610 rbp=00007fff1e8f5660 r12=00007fff1e8f5850 r13=00007fff1e8f57f0 r14=00007fff1e8f5838 r15=00007fff1e8f56c0
2013-04-01T23:50:17.701+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[15] 00007fff1e8f5610 rip=00007f9f38358853 rbx=00007fff1e8f5b08 rbp=0000000000000001 r12=0000000000000001 r13=00007f9f4bd57650 r14=00007fff1e8f5b08 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[16] 00007fff1e8f5890 rip=00007f9f4a273836 rbx=00007f9f4bd57940 rbp=0000000000000001 r12=00000000ffffffff r13=00007f9f4bd57650 r14=00007fff1e8f5b08 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[17] 00007fff1e8f5a30 rip=00007f9f49456ba5 rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007f9f4a273410 r13=00007fff1e8f5b00 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: Backtrace[18] 00007fff1e8f5af0 rip=00007f9f4a273439 rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00007f9f4a273410 r13=00007fff1e8f5b00 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[0] 00007fff1e8f30a0 rip=00007f9f3b605d7c in function Util_BacktraceWithFunc in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f9f3b25a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[1] 00007fff1e8f30c0 rip=00007f9f3b36f3b8 in function Panic_Panic in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f9f3b25a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[2] 00007fff1e8f34f0 rip=00007f9f3b36f52d in function Panic in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f9f3b25a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[3] 00007fff1e8f35d0 rip=00007f9f3b377290 in function Unicode_AllocWithLength in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f9f3b25a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[4] 00007fff1e8f35f0 rip=00007f9f3b35e5a4 in function Hostinfo_HostName in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f9f3b25a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[5] 00007fff1e8f3bc0 rip=00007f9f3b35f3dd in function Hostinfo_MachineID in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f9f3b25a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[6] 00007fff1e8f3c40 rip=00007f9f3b61e146 in function UUID_ProperHostUUID in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f9f3b25a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[7] 00007fff1e8f3d00 rip=00007f9f3b61e2bd in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f9f3b25a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[8] 00007fff1e8f3d60 rip=00007f9f3b61e64e in function UUID_GetHostUUID in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f9f3b25a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[9] 00007fff1e8f3d70 rip=00007f9f3b5a9381 in function VmhsHostSetup_InitAndPopulate in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f9f3b25a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[10] 00007fff1e8f4020 rip=00007f9f3b58f06e in function VMHS_Alloc_Secure in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f9f3b25a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[11] 00007fff1e8f4eb0 rip=00007f9f3b6179a8 in function VMClient_AllocVMClient in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f9f3b25a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.702+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[12] 00007fff1e8f5040 rip=00007f9f38315056 in function _ZN2ui3App7InitVMCEv in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware.so/libvmware.so loaded at 00007f9f3808a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.703+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[13] 00007fff1e8f50a0 rip=00007f9f38320edc in function _ZN2ui3App4InitEiPPc in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware.so/libvmware.so loaded at 00007f9f3808a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.703+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[14] 00007fff1e8f5580 rip=00007f9f38322496 in function _ZN2ui3AppC1EiPPc in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware.so/libvmware.so loaded at 00007f9f3808a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.703+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[15] 00007fff1e8f5610 rip=00007f9f38358853 in function main in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware.so/libvmware.so loaded at 00007f9f3808a000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.703+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[16] 00007fff1e8f5890 rip=00007f9f4a273836 in function main in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware loaded at 00007f9f4a256000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.703+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[17] 00007fff1e8f5a30 rip=00007f9f49456ba5 in function __libc_start_main in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 00007f9f49435000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.703+01:00| vmui| I120: SymBacktrace[18] 00007fff1e8f5af0 rip=00007f9f4a273439 in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware loaded at 00007f9f4a256000
2013-04-01T23:50:17.703+01:00| vmui| W110:
2013-04-01T23:50:17.703+01:00| vmui| W110+ The core dump limit is set to ZERO; no core dump should be expected


[digigold]

Any reason you want to use VMware in particular? VMware produces some great products like ESXi, but if you just want a virtual machine environment for Mageia I would use Virtualbox.

[morph3x]

Im just used to VMware from my work - i have used it for long time. I know about VBox and using it on mageia atm but still vmware should work too.

Any suggestion how to fix the PANIC error? I had searched already but didnt find anything helpful.

Error is: Unicode_AllocWithLength: Couldn't convert invalid buffer from ASCII to Unicode.

Have that something to do with locales?

[doktor5000]

Nope, the error is directly below that line.

Maybe take a look at http://forum.mageia.cz/index.php?PHPSES ... 82#msg3482 and http://forum.mageia.cz/index.php?PHPSES ... 36#msg3436

[bertaerts]

The log above reports:

2013-04-01T23:50:17.680+01:00| vmui| I120: HAL05LoadHALLibraries: Could not dlopen libhal.so.1.
2013-04-01T23:50:17.681+01:00| vmui| I120: HAL04LoadHALLibraries: Could not dlopen libhal.so.0.

http://alt.os.linux.mageia.narkive.com/ ... are-player
states "As the haldaemon has been deprecated, vmware player will not work till they
produce a new version that works with udisks2, unless you can figure out
how to get haldaemon working in Mageia 3.
Regards, Dave Hodgins"

Now I still have Mageia 2 x86_64 running, where VMware Workstation 9.0.2 runs just fine.
And guess what: libhal is NOT present in my Mageia 2.

It must be something else...

I tried "strace -ttT vmware" in my Mageia 3 beta 4 x86_64 KDE live DVD install.
But the output is too large for the terminal.
It reports lots of no such file or directory for .png files and the libhal.so.0 and libhal.so.1

[doktor5000]

I tried "strace -ttT vmware" in my Mageia 3 beta 4 x86_64 KDE live DVD install.
But the output is too large for the terminal.
It reports lots of no such file or directory for .png files and the libhal.so.0 and libhal.so.1

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strace -f -ttT -o output.log vmware

will write all the output into output.log file in current directory (and also monitor forked processes).

[janpihlgren]

- digigold -
About VirtualBox and Mageia 3 I have run in big troubble.
My host i 86_64 with VirtualBox 4.1.24 and the host OS is Mageia 2 with the latest updates.
I install Magea 3 Beta 4 from iso (i586). Then I reboot whith success. Contiued with update, 485 package. Reboot failed.
I did this twice. The result was the same each time.
I have reported this in Bugzilla 9807.
My opinion is that this might have to do with an old version of VirtualBox. Latest VirtualBox is 4.2.12. Or it maybe have to do with systemd.

I also run VMware Workstation 9.0.2 and haven't had that kind of problem but during testing Mageia 3 I run i problem to install VMware Tools.
VMware Workstation also have trubble to start correctly. I have to start vmware process manually each time I start my computer and vmware. also somthing that appear
after a update of Mageia 2. At the begining i works i Mageia 2.

I use this two virtual package for testing different OS and even show windowsuser how the can test Linux without wipe out windows.
My conclusion is that there has been some error with systemd.

[isadora]

Hi janpihlgren,

Did you install VMware Workstation 9.0.2 in Mageia 3? (This is what I do.)
Or did you install Mageia 3 as guest OS in VMware Workstation running on another OS?

I also encounter:

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[bert@Dell7720Mageia3 ~]$ vmware
Logging to /tmp/vmware-bert/vmware-modconfig-28888.log
filename:       /lib/modules/3.8.8-2.mga3custom/misc/vmmon.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     720B99362854B538D7E9A9A
depends:       
vermagic:       3.8.8-2.mga3custom SMP mod_unload
PANIC /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/unicode/unicodeCommon.c:330
Aborted

You don't get this?
What do you mean by "I have to start vmware process manually each time I start my computer and vmware."
What do you want to say with the reference to Mageia 2?
(I run VMware Workstation 9.0.2 in Mageia 2 x86_64 without issues.)

Apparantly we also need:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33835
An unknown symbol in vmblock kernel module prevents copy/paste and host mounting from working.

[janpihlgren]

Did you install VMware Workstation 9.0.2 in Mageia 3? (This is what I do.)
Or did you install Mageia 3 as guest OS in VMware Workstation running on another OS?

I have installed VMware in Mageia 2. I have installed Mageia 3 as quest.

What do you mean by "I have to start vmware process manually each time I start my computer and vmware."

I have to start the process by mageia control center. (Mageia 2)

What do you want to say with the reference to Mageia 2?

I will say that there, as my opinion, have been some error introduced with an update of systemd and that error still excist in Mageia 3

[bertaerts]

I use VMware Workstation 9.0.2 in Mageia 2 x86_64 without issues.
As guest OS I have Windows 7.
And my Mageia 2 is up to date with all repositories.

[janpihlgren]

I also have Windows 7 upp and running with no problem .
My problem have to do with running Magaia 3 Beta 4 and VMware Workstation with VMware Tools
My real problem is running Mageia 3 Beta 4 in VirtualBox, not running

[pinnerite]

We have all experienced 'PANIC' when trying to compile VMware's kernel modules in Mageia 3 betas up to and including today 's update using kernel 3.8.8-desktop-2.mga3. It seems the absence of libraries libhal.so.0 and libhal.so.1 are to blame. I am curious as to where to find the source for these libraries. Maybe we could complie them ourselves!

As to those whose contribution is 'Why don't you use VirtualBox?', the answer is that it cannot do everything that VMware does.

[bertaerts]

It seems the absence of libraries libhal.so.0 and libhal.so.1 are to blame.

NO that is not the issue.

On my Mageia 2 x86_64 I get exactly the same warnings about libhal.so when running

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strace -ttT -f -o log.txt vmware

Also in Mageia 2 libhal.so is not present.
But in Mageia 2 VMware Workstation 9.0.2 is running fine.

[pinnerite]

I also have VMware running fine under Mageia 2 but not Mageia 3 (so far).
As for HAL. I am merely quoting what testers have reported.

[bertaerts]

See also:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9739
vmware modules will not compile under Mageia 3 beta 4

[bertaerts]

Similar startup issue with Workstation 9.0.1 and curl
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=157718

How do we get the real reason for the abort?

[isadora]

I thought I found somthing important..
/var/log/vmware-installer contained:
[2013-05-01 19:14:29,548] This system has KVM enabled. You cannot run VMs with KVM enabled.
That is new for Mageia 3: Mageia 2 does not load KVM modules...

So I did
su
lsmod | grep kvm
rmmod kvm_intel
rmmod kvm

vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation

And install again, but still the same

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[bert@Dell7720Mageia3 log]$ vmware
Logging to /tmp/vmware-bert/vmware-modconfig-8377.log
filename:       /lib/modules/3.8.10-1.mga3custom/misc/vmmon.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     720B99362854B538D7E9A9A
depends:       
vermagic:       3.8.10-1.mga3custom SMP mod_unload
PANIC /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/unicode/unicodeCommon.c:330
Aborted

How to debug this further?
strace gives 20 MB comparing Mageia 2 and 3 strace is not easy ...

[bertaerts]

PANIC /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/unicode/unicodeCommon.c:330
Aborted

Unicode_AllocWithLength: Couldn't convert invalid buffer [mishipon] from ASCII to Unicode.

The source code where the crash happens seems to be open source:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-vm-tools/files/
open-vm-tools-9.0.0-782409.tar.gz (3.6 MB)

[digigold]

[...]As to those whose contribution is 'Why don't you use VirtualBox?', the answer is that it cannot do everything that VMware does.

Very true, but unless those additional features are required, Vbox is a great solution. (Although I must admit that I do prefer and use the vmdk format for disks even in Virtualbox.)

[...]My problem have to do with running Magaia 3 Beta 4 and VMware Workstation with VMware Tools[...]

As I recall implementing VMware Tools on virtual instances of certain Linux Distros was often problematic. One issue I ran into more than once was that VMware sometimes looks for the kernel header files in the wrong place while compiling VMWT. Problem was resolved by creating a symbolic link. Looks like your issue is different though.

[bertaerts]

A logfile in /tmp/vmware-<user>/ contains in Mageia 2 x86_64

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2013-05-02T21:47:25.931+01:00| vmui| I120: UUID: Unable to open /dev/mem: Permission denied
2013-05-02T21:47:25.931+01:00| vmui| I120: UUID: Invalid gethostid routine. Value = 7F0100.
2013-05-02T21:47:25.931+01:00| vmui| I120: vmxFilePath="/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx"


While in Mageia 3 x86_64 there is an error and PANIC:

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2013-05-02T20:47:42.773+01:00| vmui| I120: UUID: Unable to open /dev/mem: Permission denied
2013-05-02T20:47:42.774+01:00| vmui| I120: UUID: Invalid gethostid routine. Value = 7F0100.
2013-05-02T20:47:42.774+01:00| vmui| I120: Unicode_AllocWithLength: Couldn't convert invalid buffer [Dell7720] from ASCII to Unicode.
2013-05-02T20:47:42.774+01:00| vmui| I120: PANIC /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/unicode/unicodeCommon.c:330


Why does conversion from ASCII to Unicode fail on Mageia 3 while not on Mageia 2?
Am I missing a library?
Is there a library too new for this conversion?

[tom_]

it seems a new vmware player is needed...

http://alt.os.linux.mageia.narkive.com/zM5mJ33D/mageia-3-beta3-x86-64-and-vmware-player

[aselluza]

I have the same problem after installing VMware Player 5.0 in Mageia 3 x64 -final release-. I won't install Mageia 3 in may main computer because I do need VMWare Player everyday for professional use, and VirtualBox is not an option for me. VMWare Player 5.0 works fine in Mageia 2, si I hope a solution will be found soon for Mageia 3...

[maus]

In order to start VMware Player 5.0.2 in Mageia 3 x64 -final release- i have tried different approaches but the following steps did the trick:

1. first download and install the hal and dependencies from mageia2 (I don't know if vmplayer will start without hal packages, but somebody said that will not)

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rpm -ivh --nodeps  hal-0.5.14-6.mga1.x86_64.rpm lib64hal1-0.5.14-6.mga1.x86_64.rpm policykit-0.9-8.mga1.x86_64.rpm lib64polkit2-0.9-8.mga1.x86_64.rpm consolekit-0.4.5-4.mga2.x86_64.rpm hal-info-0.0-5.20091130.3.mga1.noarch.rpm

2. restart computer or start haldaemon (service haldaemon start)
3. install vmplayer 5.0.2 if not already instaled
4. to start vmplayer in console I typed:

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export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS='yes'; /usr/bin/vmplayer

I still got some errors from haldaemon ( failed to execute '/usr/lib/udev/socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event' 'socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event': No such file or directory)
but my Windows8 virtual machine started without a problem.

The error "PANIC /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/unicode/unicodeCommon.c:330" was generated by one of the new libraries the vmplayer tried to load.
I guees it is posible to specify to vmplayer which libraries to use (shipped or system) using this variables in order to find out which library generated the problem:

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2013-05-22T15:33:41.668+02:00| appLoader| I120: VMWARE_SHIPPED_LIBS_LIST is not set.
2013-05-22T15:33:41.668+02:00| appLoader| I120: VMWARE_SYSTEM_LIBS_LIST is not set.
2013-05-22T15:33:41.668+02:00| appLoader| I120: VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS is set with value "yes".
2013-05-22T15:33:41.668+02:00| appLoader| I120: VMWARE_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS is not set.


This is the messages that vmplayer generates on launch now:

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Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Logging to /tmp/vmware-maus/vmware-modconfig-15017.log
filename:       /lib/modules/3.8.13-desktop-1.mga3/misc/vmmon.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     F5C2A3126922B55F9B205DC
depends:       
vermagic:       3.8.13-desktop-1.mga3 SMP mod_unload modversions
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Hope this was helpful!

[maus]

A possible workaround:
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4643#p34863

[aselluza]

From which repositories? it can't find those files.