VMware5 setup for FC4t2

Germer Peter pgermer at www.zeon.hu
Thu Jun 2 08:51:21 UTC 2005


> I had problems building the vmware modules and it worked a treat once I
> installed kernel-devel
>
> I had previously tried,
>
> fudging the /lib/modules/..../build..... treee
> installing kernel source rpm
>
> Graham
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James C. Bevier" <jim at jbsys.com>
> To: <pgermer at zeon.hu>; "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
> <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 3:00 AM
> Subject: Re: VMware5 setup for FC4t2
>
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Germer Peter" <pgermer at www.zeon.hu>
>> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
>> <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>; <pgermer at zeon.hu>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 3:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: VMware5 setup for FC4t2
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> Le mercredi 01 juin 2005 à 22:35 +0200, Germer Peter a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> I have trouble with the vmware-config-tools.pl script in a VMware5.
>>>>> When
>>>>> the script ask me "C header files that match your running kernel",
>>>>> this
>>>>> error occured:
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> Check google for vmware-any-any
>>>>
>>>> Tony
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Tony,
>>>
>>> I tried VMware-any-any-update90 and 91 too, but didnt't work. After the
>>> config script couldn't start Virtual machine monitor and Virtual
>>> ethernet.
>>> Do you have any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Peter
>>>
>>
>> Go to /usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1-1366_FC4-x86_64/include/asm and do a
>> "ln -s ../linux/ioctl32.h ioctl32.h" and try the build again.  This has
>> worked for me.  Replace 1366 with the version of the kernel you want to
>> build for.  I have not built for i386, but should be the same.
>>
>> Jim
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Finally it works fine.
Thank you for all guys!

P.






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