VMware server problems with the new F8 kernel

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 08:38 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 11:42 +0100, Alessandro Boggiano wrote:
> > John Austin wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 08:19 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> > >> Dear All,
> > >>
> > >> With the new kernel
> > >>
> > >> kernel-2.6.24.3-12.fc8
> > >>
> > >> I get the following problem when running
> > >>
> > >>  /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl  :
> > >>
> > 
> > >> make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o] Error 1
> > >> make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only] Error 2
> > >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.24.3-12.fc8-i686'
> > >> make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
> > >> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
> > >> Unable to build the vmmon module.
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas?
> > 
> > Try this:
> > http://www.nowhere.dk/archives/2008/01/17/running_vmware_workstation_on_ubuntu_hardy_herron/index.php
> > I used a vanilla kernel, but I guess it works with the fc one!
> 
> Built the patch file from the site and used it instead of doing the
> updates manually.
> 
> Confirmed that the resulting patch does allow Workstation 6.0.2 to build
> (with a number of warnings) on both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of
> the kernel.
> 
> Note, however, that this patch also appears to at least partially revert
> Workstation 6.0.2 back to version 6.0.0. This could be due to using
> vmware-any-any-115 as the source update - I don't think there's a newer
> version as yet though.
> 
> Hopefully there will be another set of updates from VMware (like another
> beta of Server 2.0 and Workstation 6.0.3) which will fix these issues
> directly.


http://blog.creonfx.com/temp/vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
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