Re: VMWare 4.5.2-8848 problem with new kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC3

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On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 03:00 -0700, David Gardner wrote:
> After upgrading my system tonight with yum, I rebooted with the newest 
> kernel (2.6.11-1.14_FC3). The system came up fine and everything appears 
> to run normally, except for recompiling modules for VMWare 4.5.2-8848. 
> First, I got an error that the kernel was built with gcc 3.4.3. As far 
> as I can determine, that version hasn't been released yet for FC3 users 
> under normal upgrade channels. After force compiling, I got an error 
> trying to build a vmnet module (vmmon built okay, though). This has not 
> happened in prior kernels, so something's changed significantly enough 
> to break VMWare for the latest released kernel. I suspect it's gcc 
> that's the culprit, with some significant header file changes that 
> aren't out in the real world yet.
> 

I did not have a problem building the VMWare modules for x86_64 and
VMWare 5 (beta).  Nevertheless, from the fedora-test-list, Paul Iadonisi
reported that a new patch is available at:

http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update90.tar.gz

It might be worth a try.

Bob...


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