Installing VMware server
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 19:06:25 UTC 2007
alan wrote:
>>>
>>> touch /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`/include/config.h
>>>
>>> This should be all that you need
>>
>> It blows my mind that I have to do that with each new kernel. What's up
>> with that? It would be great to get an explanation. Ric
>
> config.h was depricated a while back. There used to be a symlink from
> autoconf.h to config.h in include/linux. (I have not used the empty
> file as described above. I link it to what it is supposed to be. I
> don't know if it makes a difference.) A few programs that build
> kernel modules still have problem with the missing config.h. NVIDIA
> fixed this a while ago. VMWare has not. (VMWare tools also has
> compile problems which have never been fixed. There are some
> third-party hacks to fix some of those issues.)
Apparently interfaces are the new version of "promises made to be broken".
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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