On Monday 23 November 2009 10:29:55 Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > VMware Server 2 is not compatible with Fedora 11 x86_64, i.e. kernels > 2.6.29.4 and up. So don't bother to try compiling vmmon modules for VMware > Server. > > If you encounter problems while compiling the vboxdrv and vmmon kernel > modules, it may be that your local kernel source tree is not properly > configured. > > In my case: > > # cd /lib/modules/2.6.30.5-enming.teo > > # rm build (symbolic link) > > # ln -s /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.30.5 build > > # rm source (symblic link) > > # ln -s /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.30.5 source > > Go to your kernel source tree. Some kernel header files may not be present. > > # cd /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.30.5 > > If .config exists, > > # make oldconfig > > # make prepare > > This will generate the missing kernel headers. Why not just yum groupinstall "Development Tools" or "yum install kernel-headers", which is apparently included in the above group? > For VirtualBox, > > # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup > > Above step will recompile linux kernel modules for VirtualBox. There will > be 3 kernel modules. > > To load the vboxdrv kernel module, > > # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start If you did the yum thing above *before* installing VirtualBox, there is no need for these steps. Otherwise they are needed, at least I remember doing the first one. I wouldn't know about VMware, gave up on it after having too much trouble with kernel drivers. VirtualBox appears to provide equivalent functionality, and is (mostly) open source, so I don't expect the same trouble with building kernel modules. ;-) HTH, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
