VMWare 4.5.2-8848 problem with new kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC3
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Tue Apr 12 11:11:40 UTC 2005
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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