Installing Vmare Workstation 10 causing reboot on my PC
After installing Vmware workstation on my RHEL 6.5 MY PC started to reboot after turning on Vmware Workstation. Is there any guide or proper way to install it in order to avoid this kind of situation?
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Guru
6863 points
Hi Rafael,
Just to let you know that you likely did nothing wrong in this case. I am in the same boat. As soon as I upgraded to 6.5 (RHEL or CentOS - I have tried both) and using VMware Workstation 9, my machine will core and reboot as well. I have not seen a resolution come along yet. I have noticed people talking about glibc having a problem though.
Guru
6863 points
Rafael - if you absolutely need VMware Workstation and need it reasonably soon, I recommend downgrading to the RHEL 6.4 and not upgrading the kernel/glibc until VMware and the community gets this figured out.
Or.. you can do the following (you can cut-and-paste this entire clip):
sudo service vmware stop
sudo mv -v /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.orig
sudo rm -v /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/v*.ko
sudo depmod -a
#I already had gcc, make, and the kernel headers, but if anyone is following this,
# they should probably make sure
sudo yum install make gcc kernel-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo service vmware start
The next time you start Vmware Workstation, it will indicate it needs to recompile the binaries.
Which I found here...
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/463825?start=30&tstart=0
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