On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 13:42 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 01.08.2011 13:39, schrieb Paul Smith: > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Lawrence E Graves > > <lgraves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I updated to the new kernel 40-4 and now my vmware workstation will not > >> compile. I believe there is a missing program. Please check. > > > > Consider instead to use VirtualBox: > > > > http://www.virtualbox.org/ > > > > There is a repo for Fedora, so you can install it with yum. It works great! > > you can never compare vbox and VMware, really you can not! > VMware-Images can be used/converted everywehre up to ESXi/vCenter > > http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/2011/05/14/running-vmware-workstation-player-on-linux-2-6-39-updated/ > http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/vmware2.6.39patchv3.tar.bz2 > I installed 2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64 and tried to build VMware. I ran into this error almost at once: CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:783:59: error: ‘SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED’ undeclared here (not in a function) It's caused by the following being removed from the file source/include/linux/spinlock_types.h: /* * SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED defeats lockdep state tracking and is hence * deprecated. * Please use DEFINE_SPINLOCK() or __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED() as * appropriate. */ #define SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(old_style_spin_init) Looks like a patch to the VMware source code should fix this issue. I can experiment with this if I can find the time. There may be more "issues," however. -- Mark C. Allman, PMP, CSM Allman Professional Consulting, Inc. First Vice-President, Ocean State PMI www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
