Not sure if anyone else is having nightmare issues on Fedora with VMware and others...
After getting through the issues with Kernel Headers, GCC, etc... so that installation is successful, I setup a machine and try to start it but get:
Error: Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded. |
I've done a lot of searching through VMwares KB's, Communities, as this appears to be a consistent issue. I've also gone through a lot of 3rd party sites too, but nothing is resolving.
I have used the following corrections but no luck:
- "Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded." - which states:
mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old
... See section below for rebuilding modules
- vmware-modconfig --console --install-all - for (re)building the modules for later
- Verified service in /etc/init.d/ and attempted to start it and get:
Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor [FAILED] Virtual machine communication interface [ OK ] VM communication interface socket family [ OK ] Blocking file system [ OK ] Virtual ethernet [FAILED] VMware Authentication Daemon [ OK ] |
- Tried adding vmmon to kernel using: modprobe vmmon, but get error: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vmmon' : Required key not available
I'm sure there is something simple that I'm missing, right? It seems that before the service can work right, I need to get vmmon properly working?
Journalctl logs attached as well.
Thanks for your help!