Installing Vmware, ERRORS:

[jim tate]

Yuandan Zhang wrote:
>
>
> On 19/03/07, *jim tate* <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net 
> <mailto:mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
>
>     Running vmware-config-pl for VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386.rpm on
>     FC6-2.6.20-1.2925.fc6-i686
>     and I get the following error, can anyone tell me what I'm doing
>     wrong.
>     ( But of course I would believe it couldn't be anything that I'm
>     doing).
>
>
>
>     What is the location of the directory of C header files that match
>     your
>     running
>     kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6/build/include]
>     /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6/build/include
>
>     Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
>
>     Building the vmmon module.
>
>     Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
>     make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/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-i686'
>     CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
>     In file included from
>     /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:80:
>     /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error:
>     expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'compat _exit'
>     /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error:
>     expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'exit_c ode'
>     /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: warning:
>     type defaults to 'int' in declaration of '_syscall1'
>     make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
>     make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2
>     make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20- 1.2925.fc6-i686'
>     make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
>     make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
>     Unable to build the vmmon 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.
>
>
>
> Yes, it happened to mine too. I use this to work around:
>
> http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update108.tar.gz
>
>
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> Yuandan Zhang
> 张元旦
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I downloaded and extracted.
What command did you use from this directory ?

Thanks for your help
Jim