VMware server cannot run on FC6

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 02:06:33 UTC 2006


Dear All

I get the following problem when running the vmware-config.pl script. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

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What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only'
make -C /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686/include/..
SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/hash.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/task.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmcore/moduleloop.o
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmmon.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
  CC      /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686'
cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only'
Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon.o': -1 Invalid module format
There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration between the
set of C header files you specified and your running kernel.  You may want to
rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory.

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".

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