VMware Workstation 6.5 complains of no /dev/rtc

[Mike Basinger]

VMware Workstation is having a problem because of no /dev/rtc in Intrepid (Updated 16-Oct-08)

Error from VMware Workstation
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The host high-resolution timer device (/dev/rtc) cannot be opened (No such file or directory). It appears that the device is not configured into your kernel. Without this device, the guest operating system can fail to keep time correctly. To avoid this problem, reconfigure your kernel with CONFIG_RTC included, or see http://vmware.com/info?id=34.
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[Filipe Sousa (natros)]

I'm having the same problem as you. There's a few rtc modules configured in the kernel:

$ grep CONFIG_RTC /boot/config-2.6.27-7-generic
CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=y
# CONFIG_RTC_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS=y
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_DS1305=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_DS1307=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_DS1374=m
# CONFIG_RTC_DRV_DS1511 is not set
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_DS1553=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_DS1672=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_DS1742=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_FM3130=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_ISL1208=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_M41T80=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_M41T80_WDT=y
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_M41T94=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_M48T59=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_M48T86=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_MAX6900=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_MAX6902=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_PCF8563=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_PCF8583=m
# CONFIG_RTC_DRV_R9701 is not set
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_RS5C348=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_RS5C372=m
# CONFIG_RTC_DRV_S35390A is not set
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_STK17TA8=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_TEST=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_V3020=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_X1205=m
CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS=y
CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE="rtc0"
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_DEV=y
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_DEV_UIE_EMUL=y
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_PROC=y
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_RTC_LIB=y

And there's /dev/rtc0 but not /dev/rtc
$ ls -l /dev/rtc*
crw-rw---- 1 root root 254, 0 2008-10-21 22:04 /dev/rtc0

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This may be a duplicate of #283522