VMware fails to build with the new kernel

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 12:03:57 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 14:17 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sat September 13 2008 9:36:45 am Maurizio Marini wrote:
> > > I installed vmware-any-any-update117-itpsycho.tar.bz2 ***without***
> > > installing vmware-any-any-update117d.tar.gz (and **without** the patch
> > > files belongig to the ...d version) so VMware-server-1.0.7-108231.i386
> > > now runs flawless.
> >
> > Yes!
> > is wht i tried to say, i must clean everithing, and then reinstall
> > everithing using the patch update117-itpsycho.
> > i can confirm: it works!!!
> 
> Following the above suggestions, I got this error:
> 
> gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/common/task.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686'
> make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
> Unable to build the vmmon module.
> ********************************************************
> any one have an idea what I'm missing?
> -- 

You're missing the gcc-c++ package. 

- Gilboa




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