Re: Installing Vmware, ERRORS:

["Yuandan Zhang" <yuandan.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/03/07, jim tate <mickeyboa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Running vmware-config-pl for VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386.rpm on
FC6-2.6.20-1.2925.fc6-i686
and I get the following error, can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong.
( But of course I would believe it couldn't be anything that I'm doing).



What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6/build/include]
/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6/build/include

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD
SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6-i686'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:80:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error:
expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'compat _exit'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error:
expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'exit_c ode'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: warning:
type defaults to 'int' in declaration of '_syscall1'
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20- 1.2925.fc6-i686'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at
"http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
" http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".

Execution aborted.

Yes, it happened to mine too. I use this to work around:

http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update108.tar.gz

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