rawhide report: 20070320 changes

Ronald Warsow rwarsow at online.de
Wed Mar 21 14:30:42 UTC 2007


Jim Bevier wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <buildsys at redhat.com>
> To: <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>; <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:10 AM
> Subject: rawhide report: 20070320 changes
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> The last two kernels 2997 & 2999 no longer allows VMWare to build.  
> Anybody have a fix?
> 
> Jim

can't say something to kernels 2997 & 2999, but for previous:

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/
tar xvf vmmon.tar
cd vmmon-only/include
vi compat_kernel.h

line 80:
#define __NR_compat_exit __NR_exit
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,19)
	static inline _syscall1(int, compat_exit, int, exit_code);
-
+#endif

tar -cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
vmware-config.pl -d
------------------------------------------------------

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD 
SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6-x86_64'
   CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:80:
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: 
expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘compat_exit’
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: 
expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘exit_code’
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: warning: 
type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘_syscall1’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6-x86_64'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.


works.
there is also a patch version at vmware mail lists.

keep in mind:
one of the new wmware-player versions implements a sort of 
WGA/licence-key checkup.

try virtualbox. gpl !

-- 
      ronald




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