I have this problem. I am running fedora 20 on my laptop and, i have wmvare player program.
When i try to run wmware, i see this problema.
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[root@localhost init.d]# systemctl status vmware.service
vmware.service - SYSV: This service starts and stops VMware services
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since dom 2014-11-23 20:32:51 EST; 43s ago
Process: 5766 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
nov 23 20:32:51 localhost.localdomain vmware[5766]: Starting VMware services:
nov 23 20:32:51 localhost.localdomain vmware[5766]: Virtual machine monitor[ OK ]
nov 23 20:32:51 localhost.localdomain vmware[5766]: Virtual machine communication interface[ OK ]
nov 23 20:32:51 localhost.localdomain vmware[5766]: VM communication interface socket family[ OK ]
nov 23 20:32:51 localhost.localdomain vmware[5766]: Blocking file system[ OK ]
nov 23 20:32:51 localhost.localdomain vmware[5766]: Virtual ethernet[FALLÓ]
nov 23 20:32:51 localhost.localdomain vmware[5766]: VMware Authentication Daemon[ OK ]
nov 23 20:32:51 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: vmware.service: control process exited, code=exited s...s=1
nov 23 20:32:51 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: This service starts and stops V...es.
nov 23 20:32:51 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit vmware.service entered failed state.
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I have a Fedora 20 VM running on VMWare, and I tried this out. I have the tools working fine, my VM is a 64 bit one.
Have you tried reinstalling the VMWare tools? I use the latest ones, and they work using the systemd infrastructure.
What do you see when you issue this command:
Here's what I get:
I keep getting this during the installation of the tools:
apparently you have to patch vmware modules to make them work in 3.17 kernels, see if this helps