When I run vmware at the command line as a normal user, it flashes the window and shows that it aborted. When I try using sudo, it works fine. But I really don't want to run vmware as root.
I've got the vmware patches applied for kernel 3.11.
Any ideas?
mfrederickson@artemis2:/tmp/vmware-mfrederickson$ vmware
Logging to /tmp/vmware-mfrederickson/vmware-modconfig-15414.log
filename: /lib/modules/3.11.0-18-generic/misc/vmmon.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: 371FC822A8256C65D5E700F
depends:
vermagic: 3.11.0-18-generic SMP mod_unload modversions
Aborted (core dumped)
The log file:
2014-03-06T11:42:39.397-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Log for VMware Workstation pid=15414 version=9.0.2 build=build-1031769 option=Release
2014-03-06T11:42:39.397-09:00| vthread-3| I120: The process is 64-bit.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.397-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
2014-03-06T11:42:39.397-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Host is Linux 3.11.0-18-generic Ubuntu 13.10
2014-03-06T11:42:39.397-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Msg_Reset:
2014-03-06T11:42:39.397-09:00| vthread-3| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.397-09:00| vthread-3| I120: ----------------------------------------
2014-03-06T11:42:39.397-09:00| vthread-3| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/settings. Using default values.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.397-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Msg_Reset:
2014-03-06T11:42:39.397-09:00| vthread-3| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/home/mfrederickson/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.397-09:00| vthread-3| I120: ----------------------------------------
2014-03-06T11:42:39.397-09:00| vthread-3| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /home/mfrederickson/.vmware/config. Using default values.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.398-09:00| vthread-3| W110: Logging to /tmp/vmware-mfrederickson/vmware-modconfig-15414.log
2014-03-06T11:42:39.405-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vmmon module.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.405-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vmnet module.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.405-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vmblock module.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.405-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vmci module.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.405-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vsock module.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.405-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Setting vsock to depend on vmci.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.405-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Created new pathsHash.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.405-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vmmon".
2014-03-06T11:42:39.408-09:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.408-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vmnet".
2014-03-06T11:42:39.410-09:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.410-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vmblock".
2014-03-06T11:42:39.413-09:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.413-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vmci".
2014-03-06T11:42:39.415-09:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2014-03-06T11:42:39.415-09:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vsock".
2014-03-06T11:42:39.417-09:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.