VMWare 4.5.2 broken? - Fixed now

Allen Kistler an037-0m26i at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 15 00:35:00 UTC 2004


Steve Fox wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 13:20 -0500, Steve Fox wrote:
> 
>>I did a 'yum update' yesterday and now when I try the new kernel, I get
>>the below message from VMWare. Any clues as to why mknod would break?
>>udev stuff?
> 
> 
> After updating again today and getting udev-036, vmware-configure.pl
> works again.

/dev is a tempfs with udev, so everything gets deleted every time you
shut down.  Without explicit instructions to recreate vmmon, vmnet*, and
parport*, they don't get created by udev on boot.




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