I recently moved my vmware datastore from a local disk partition to an NFS share (in preparation for some other system changes that are still in progress).

In the init sequence, vmware loads before the NFS share gets mounted, so it checks the datastore, and finds it empty. Makes it hard to start a VM. :(

As a temporary fix, I added the line service vmware restart to rc.local, but I consider that a kludge.

I find in rc3.d the files S19vmware and S25netfs.

Questions:

1. If I change S19vmware to S27vmware, that should bring up the NFS file system before VMware starts, correct?

2. Are the NFS file systems mounted at that point in init?

3. If I change the boot order of vmware, will vmware change it back to 19 next time I have to run vmware-config.pl?

Ted Miller Indiana, USA