VMware fails to build with the new kernel

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 14:01:16 UTC 2008


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Steven Stern
<subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:
> Arnold Sutter wrote:
>> Hi Paul and Steven,
>>
>>> VMware fails to build with the new kernel. The error messages are
>>> detailed below.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> What "VMware"?
>>
>> I just upgraded my F8 system to Kernel 2.6.26.3-14.fc8 and had no
>> problems
>> compiling the VMware Host tools from VMware Workstation V6.0.5 for Linux
>> (and I would assume VMware Server V1.0.7 for Linux to behave the same).
>>
>> You are right that this could sometimes be a problem when you don't have
>> the latest VMware software running against the most recent kernels.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Arnold
>>
> VMWare Server 1.0.7

That is the one I have got:

$ rpm -q VMware-server
VMware-server-1.0.7-108231.i386
$

And I cannot have it working on F9.

Paul




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