{"id":1123,"date":"2009-09-01T14:24:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T21:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2012-10-07T22:09:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T02:09:54","slug":"vm-fail-take-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"VM Fail, Take Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the last time I messed with my VM<\/a>, I needed IT to come and build a new VM for me to use.
\nYou think I would have learned better than to mess around with vmware when everything was working mostly fine.<\/p>\n

This morning, I came in to work to a perfectly working VM and everything was fine. However, ever since IT had gotten me to install VMWare Player to create my new VM, I hadn’t been able to use VMWare Server. I figured I would remedy this.<\/p>\n

First step was straightforward enough… uninstall VMWare Player. Unfortunately, it seems that doing so also uninstalled VMWare Server. Fine, whatever.<\/p>\n

Second step then became to reinstall VMWare Server. This didn’t quite work… apparently I’m missing a couple kernel source files. As a result, it was unable to build the VSOCK module. This meant that my VMs, when run through VMWare Server, had no network access. This is a problem when the entire point of your VM is to run tests remotely.<\/p>\n

After trying without success to sync the required source files, I figured I’d cut my losses and go back to the player. Uninstalled VMWare Server and reinstalled VMWare Player.<\/p>\n

This install didn’t quite work right. It didn’t create the shortcut in my Applications menu, which I tried to do. Then, on launching, it was unable to read some required files to start up unless I ran it with sudo. In the end, I decided to just tell the shortcut to sudo it, because I didn’t want to start chowning the actual VM files.<\/p>\n

So yeah. That took most of the morning and resulted in a less-usable Player (have to run with sudo now). Blah.<\/p>\n

I am not touching my VM again for a while. :P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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