Compile VMware vmmon module

[Tom London]

On 1/17/06, Gawain Lynch <gawain.lynch at bigpond.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 06:59 +0100, Günter Schmidt wrote:
> > With the latest kernel (2.6.15-1.1857_FC5) I can't build the vmmon
> > module anymore. It is aborted
> > with error "conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'" . Did anybody fix
> > that problem already?
>
> It is not a Fedora issue, rather a VMware one.
>
> Grab the latest vmware-any-any-updateNN.tar.gz file from
> http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ untar and execute runme.pl
>
>
I ran into this a few days ago, and posted it on the VMWare discussion board:
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=30187&tstart=60

There is a 'patch' posted there (be sure to read Petr's 'quick fix' at
the bottom).

tom
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Tom London