On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 06:42 -0400, Mark C. Allman wrote: > 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. > Nice find! I would suggest that we send this information to VMware Support. Since Fedora is now considered a supported Linux distribution for VMware Workstation (and vSphere as well), this should definitely be of interest to them. I can check with my VMware contacts to see where this should go to get the quickest visibility and response. Cheers, Chris Williams (VCAP4-DCD, VCAP4-DCA) -- ====================== "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein -- 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
