VMware from SuSE Linux 7.1 on: The Location of the Init Scripts Has Been Changed

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions since 7.1

VMware Workstation and Express: Versions up to 2.0.4
VMware GSX Server: Versions up to 1.0.1

Symptom:

After updating to or installing SuSE Linux 7.1 or a higher version from scratch, the installation of VMware fails due to any of these problems:

Cause:

From version 7.1 on, the location of the initialization links of single runlevels has been changed according to the LSB ("Linux Standard Base Specification"). For further information about this subject, please refer to http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/gLSB/gLSB/initscrcomconv.html).

Solution:

Procedure for VMware Workstation and VMware Express:

Simply change to init.d's new directory and create there a link to init.d.
This can be done by executing the following commands on the command line as user 'root':

cd /etc/init.d
ln -s . init.d

Once the installation script 'vmware-config.pl' has been executed, please remove this link with:

rm /etc/init.d/init.d

This link is unnecessary and should not exist in a productive system.

Procedure for VMware GSX server version:

On the one hand, you could follow the procedure described above for configuring the VMware GSX server version. However, we recommend you to download the latest version of the GSX server which can be found at http://www.vmware.com/download/ . This version has been adapted to the new location of the init scripts and it contains precompiled VMware modules for SuSE Linux. You can install this package with:
rpm -Uhv VMware-gsx-1.0.3-1527.i386.rpm
Then start:
vmware-config.pl

Note: In case you do not use the SuSE Linux standard kernel, please remember to install the kernel sources.
See also:
o Installing VMware GSX Server 1.0 on SuSE Linux with Kernel 2.4

Keywords: VMWARE, 71, 7.1, INIT, LSB, RUNLEVEL, INITSCRIPTS, INIT SCRIPTS

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