Wiki » Tip for installing VMware 9 and VMPlayer on Mageia3

Introduction

This page describes a tip for running VMware workstation 9 on Mageia 3.

The problem

Following the normal install process for VMware workstation 9 on Mageia 3, the problem is exhibited when attempting to run vmware workstation 9 :

$ vmware
Logging to /tmp/vmware-mpb/vmware-modconfig-5990.log
filename:       /lib/modules/3.8.13.4-desktop-1.mga3/misc/vmmon.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     720B99362854B538D7E9A9A
depends:        
vermagic:       3.8.13.4-desktop-1.mga3 SMP mod_unload modversions 
PANIC /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/unicode/unicodeCommon.c:330
Aborted

The solution

# mv /etc/vmware/icu/icudt44l.dat /etc/vmware/icu/icudt44l.dat.bak

Reference on Mageia bug system: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9739

For VMplayer version 6

The following tip is for VMplayer 6.

Additional Problem with systemd

After installing VMPlayer 6 during boot the following message appears and is also logged in /var/log/messages:

systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: This service starts and stops vmamqpd

However VMPlayer runs as expected.

Obviously vmamqpd belongs to VMWare 10 and should not be installed with VMPlayer.

Solution

look for the file

vmamqpd

in

/etc/rc.d/init.d

and move the file to a backup location, e.g.

$ mv /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmamqpd /root/vmamqpd.bak