Latest kernels and VMWare

[Jim Bevier]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher A. Williams" <chrisw01 at comcast.net>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
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Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 5:38 AM
Subject: Re: Latest kernels and VMWare


> On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 20:59 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On 7/15/06, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 7/15/06, Jim Bevier <jim at jbsys.com> wrote:
>> > > The last couple of kernels (2396 & 2401) create a problem with the
>> > > vmware-config.pl script.  It seems the 2.6.18 kernel mods have 
>> > > changed where
>> > > the definition of "UTS_RELEASE" is stored.  It used to be in 
>> > > version.h, now
>> > > it is in utsrelease.h.  Manually adding "#include utsrelase.h" to the
>> > > version.h file gets me past this problem.  It caused vmware to not be 
>> > > able
>> > > to find the proper kernel include files.  One I get past this problem 
>> > > vmmon
>> > > build fine, but building vmnet aborts with "unknown symbol
>> > > 'lockdep_init_map'".  I guess this is some new kernel thing.  Does 
>> > > anyone
>> > > know how to get around this error?  I like to test vmware and ntfs 
>> > > for each
>> > > new kernel release.
>> > >
>> > > Jim
>> > >
>> > No easy way around this.....
>> >
>> > The new kernel adds a new 'CONFIG_LOCKDEP' option that appears to add
>> > some stuff (GPL code, I think) that 'breaks' the VMWare vmmon.
>> >
>> > Here is a reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/4/247
>> >
>> > Looks like Petr (from VMWare) is working on it (I hope!).
>> >
>> > Until then, the last kernel that I've gotten VMWare working is
>> > kernel-2.6.17-1.2339.fc6. Don't delete that one!
>> >
>>
>> I have not had a problem with vmware for a while after using the usual
>> vmware-any-any.tar.gz [ http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ ]
>
> Same here. Using the latest vmware-any-any.tar.gz patch on VMware
> Workstation 5.5, the compiler flags a few warnings, but it compiles and
> runs just fine.
>
> I also just loaded VMware Server GA version on FC5 with the same kernel
> update (2.6.17-1.2157). It compiles flawlessly out of the box with no
> warnings at all (no patches required).

I have the 101 fixes and vmware did work until the 2.6.18 mods started ~2356 
kernel I think.  Update to rawhide and you will find vmware no longer builds 
or works!  Note that I was using kernels 2396 and 2401 on FC6T1, not FC5. 
Vmware works fine on FC5.

Jim

>
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>
> Chris
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