On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 08:38 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 11:42 +0100, Alessandro Boggiano wrote: > > John Austin wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 08:19 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > > >> Dear All, > > >> > > >> With the new kernel > > >> > > >> kernel-2.6.24.3-12.fc8 > > >> > > >> I get the following problem when running > > >> > > >> /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl : > > >> > > > > >> make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o] Error 1 > > >> make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only] Error 2 > > >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.24.3-12.fc8-i686' > > >> make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 > > >> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only' > > >> Unable to build the vmmon module. > > >> > > >> Any ideas? > > > > Try this: > > http://www.nowhere.dk/archives/2008/01/17/running_vmware_workstation_on_ubuntu_hardy_herron/index.php > > I used a vanilla kernel, but I guess it works with the fc one! > > Built the patch file from the site and used it instead of doing the > updates manually. > > Confirmed that the resulting patch does allow Workstation 6.0.2 to build > (with a number of warnings) on both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of > the kernel. > > Note, however, that this patch also appears to at least partially revert > Workstation 6.0.2 back to version 6.0.0. This could be due to using > vmware-any-any-115 as the source update - I don't think there's a newer > version as yet though. > > Hopefully there will be another set of updates from VMware (like another > beta of Server 2.0 and Workstation 6.0.3) which will fix these issues > directly. http://blog.creonfx.com/temp/vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz > > Cheers, > > Chris > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Mathematical Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
