Robert Locke wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 09:04 +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote:
Below a log of vmware building the vmnet module and failing. This has
worked up until my latest update. Don't bother with the URL links, as
I've tried them and one is a page not found the other has no
troubleshooting. Does one of the programmers on this list know what this
is? The newsgroup link from the page seems to be broken also.
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Building the vmnet module.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1637_FC4smp/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD
SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.14-1.1637_FC4-smp-i686'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vnet.h:14,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:10,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.c:40:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vm_atomic.h:54:5: warning: "_MSC_VER" is
not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vm_oui.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:11,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.c:40:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vm_basic_asm.h:48:5: warning: "_MSC_VER"
is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.c: In function ˜VNetProcessOwnsPort:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.c:1698: error: struct files_struct
has no member named max_fds
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.14-1.1637_FC4-smp-i686'
make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
Unable to build the vmnet module.
For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at
"http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html"; and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html";.
Execution aborted.
OK, I'll ask the obvious questions...
What version of VMWare? I had no problem building VMWare Workstation
5.0 on both that kernel 1637 and the newer 1644.
5.0.0
So next obvious check, are you using the latest vmware-any-any-update96?
Appears to be needed particularly if you are using VMWare 4.5.2....
Nope - didn't even know about it. Is this still required for version 5?
If so do I grab that from vmware?
Understand my company bought vmware, threw it at me to install on the
workstation here. I managed to get it working every time before when
there were updates and I had to re-compile, just not this time. I don't
know a hell of a lot about it, I just used the perl script and left the
defaults as they were initially set up, it would simply compile the
vmnet.ko module.
Not this time though :(
If using the released today 5.5, I have no idea yet as I haven't had a
chance to build those yet.
No way - this is at least a couple of months old.
The only difference in my environment that I can see is that I am not
smp - using the UP kernel...
Other thought as to a difference. I noticed a gcc update announcement
today that I have yet to get so perhaps that is different - I am still
running: gcc-4.0.1-4.fc4....
--Rob
Well it broke after these updates (from what I can tell):
Package Installed:
dlm-kernel.i686 2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.16
gnbd-kernel.i686 2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.52
GFS-kernel.i686 2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.19
cman-kernel.i686 2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.17
Package Updated:
dlm-kernheaders.i686 2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.16
openswan-doc.i386 2.4.4-1.0.FC4.1
GFS-kernheaders.i686 2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.19
openswan.i386 2.4.4-1.0.FC4.1
perl.i386 3:5.8.6-16.fc4
gnbd-kernheaders.i686 2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.52
cman-kernheaders.i686 2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.17
perl-suidperl.i386 3:5.8.6-16.fc4
Thanks so far.
Ed.
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