On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 11:04 +0100, oliver frommel wrote: > Hello, > > yesterday I spent some time trying to compile the latest VMware > demo I just downloaded from the site. After some research I > came to the conclusion that it does not work with the Fedora 3 > kernel. > > During the linking stage of vmmon.o two symbols are missing > __copy_from_user_ll and __copy_to_user. As I am not too > familiar with the kbuild system I don't know exactly where > they come from, as they don't show up in the vmmmon-src. > linux/hostif.c is just using the plain functions copy_from_user() > and copy_to_user(). (I changed both functions to their > direct_.. counterparts, getting the same linker errors) > > After downloading, extracting and preparing the fedora-kernel > srpm I found that (one of) the 4G/4G patches is removing > the EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_from_user). > > Is this the cause for the errors? > Is there a way to make vmmon.o link without errors? > > thanks for your help > Oliver > Which VMware - Workstation, GSX? Have you tried vmware-any-any patch? See http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/readme.txt also paying attention to udev problems. VMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848 works-for-me with help/patches from above. [OT - may want to check out qemu. Dag's qemu-0.6.0-1.1.fc2.dag seems to work for FC3. Thanks to Alan Cox for the pointer.] Phil
