vmware

[Kam Leo]

On 1/21/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/21/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Kam Leo wrote:
> >
> > > On 1/21/07, toracat <toracat at adelphia.net> wrote:
> > >> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:16:21 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> The error message is "Unable to open the installer database
> > >> >> /etc/vmware/locations in read-mode.".
> > >> >>
> > >> >> > see?  Also update106 is out now. Have you tried that one?
> > >> >>
> > >> >> It is not at http://http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/. What is the URL?
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> > Found the file at
> > >> > http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update106.tar.gz
> > >> >
> > >> > Does not work with workstation 5.5.3. Still getting the "Unable to open
> > >> > installer..." error.
> > >>
> > >> Your error sounds unusual.  Does the /etc/vmware/locations file exist?
> > >> This error message would occur if the installation script
> > >> (vmware-install.pl) cannot open that file.  If your vmware installation is
> > >> broken somehow, uninstall and reinstall might help.
> > >>
> > >
> > > vmware-any-any-update106/runme.pl expects "location" to be in
> > > /etc/vmware. The directory, /etc/vmware, is empty. It would appear
> > > that version 5.5.3 of workstation has moved its files to
> > > /etc/vmware-tools.
> > >
> > > I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Also linking /etc/vmware
> > > to /etc/vmware-tools. Neither works.
> >
> > Very strange, as I have VMwareWorkstation-5.5.3-34685 and it builds fine
> > (except for one warning in the network compile--and works fin--with
> > kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 and without the vmware-any-any patch.
> >
> > $ ls /etc/vmware/
> > config        locations     vmnet1/
> > installer.sh  state/        vmnet8/
> > $ rpm -qf /etc/vmware
> > VMwareWorkstation-5.5.3-34685
> >
> > /etc/vmware-tools is from the vmware-tools guest package, not the VMware
> > host package.
> >
> > So what is the host OS and what is the guest OS?  What package did you
> > install on the host, and what on the guest?  What are you trying to build
> > on the host and what on the geust?  RPM or tarball?
>
> Host is Windows 2000. Guest is FC6.  VMware-Tools is installed as an RPM.
>
> >                 Matthew Saltzman
>

I should clarify the problem further. vmware-config.pl runs fine until
compiling of the vmxnet module. This is the error that appears:

Building the vmxnet module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config18/vmxnet-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD
SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6-i686'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config18/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.o
/tmp/vmware-config18/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c: In function
\u2018vmxnet_netpoll\u2019:
/tmp/vmware-config18/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:1058: error: too many
arguments to function \u2018vmxnet_interrupt\u2019
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config18/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config18/vmxnet-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6-i686'
make: *** [vmxnet.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config18/vmxnet-only'
Unable to build the vmxnet module.