Installing Vmware, ERRORS:

[Yuandan Zhang]

On 19/03/07, jim tate <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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