VMware Workstation and FC5T2 Working??

[Dwaine Garden]

Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> On 2/9/06, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> There is a bug in the vmware-config.pl script that is exposed by
>> changes to the newer kernel headers.
>>
>> I've reported this to vmware:
>> http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=31877&tstart=0
>>
>> Here is the patch described there:
>>
>> --- vmware-config.pl.old        2005-12-15 21:55:24.000000000 -0800
>> +++ vmware-config.pl    2006-02-04 16:53:06.000000000 -0800
>> @@ -1969,8 +1969,8 @@
>>     . ' -E - | ' . shell_string($gHelper{'grep'}) . ' '
>>     . shell_string($pattern));
>>   chomp($header_page_offset);
>> -  $header_page_offset =~ s/^$pattern \(?0x([0-9a-fA-F]{8,}).*$/$1/;
>> -  if ($header_page_offset =~ /[0-9a-fA-F]{8,}/) {
>> +  if ($header_page_offset =~ /^$pattern \(?0x([0-9a-fA-F]{8,})/) {
>> +    $header_page_offset = $1;
>>     # We found a valid page offset
>>     if (defined($gSystem{'page_offset'}) and
>>         not (lc($header_page_offset) eq lc($gSystem{'page_offset'}))) {
>>
>>     
> I do have the same thing:
>
> In file included from <stdin>:2:
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1948_FC5/build/include/asm/page.h:71:23: error:
> mach_page.h: No such file or directory
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
> kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1948_FC5/build/include]
>
> I did patch the vmware-config.pl. But still the same issue. Ive
> attached my patch to this mail. Is there something wrong with it?
>
>   
>> BTW, if you have not already done so, you may also need to make minor
>> changes in the makefiles that get run by vmware-config.pl.  Described
>> in vmware discussion group here:
>>
>> http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=337443#337443
>>
>> [You'll know you'll need to do this if vmware-config.pl compiles fail....]
>>
>>     
>
>   
Did you untar the two files and make the necessary changes to the module 
c files.   Then re-tar them?
I can confirm that the two patches worked just fine for me.

Dwaine