As I've wrote perviously, after years living with Virtual Box,
I'm experimenting with vmware.
After a period of having a wonderfully stable network for testing and learning on my ubuntu host
all of a sudden it happened: The guest machines wouldn't start with vmware producing the dreaded error message informing that vmmon cannot be loaded.
My searchs for an answer on the internet brought me to discussions that mostly suggested -
either turning off safe boot or
reconfiguring vmware drivers (sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all )
(I think that this vmmon not loading thread on askubuntu sums up the common wisdom.
But safe boot was already off, because of other considerations (I verified, just to be on the safe side) and there have been no kernel updates, so after scratching my head, i decided to try something simpler first:
1) apt-get update
2) apt-get upgrade
It seemed logical that before doing anything else, this should be performed.
And indeed - that solved the problem.
(
p.s
why did that work ?
I have to admit, ashamed, that at the moment, I have no idea.
But sometimes, as the late Douglas Adams once wrote, if you delve
too deep seeking an answer, the question might be taken from you,
and in my case, there are other issues I wish to pursue
which interest me more...
but if I found out, I'll update this post with another p.s)
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