----- Original Message -----
From: "Dwaine Garden" <DwaineGarden@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
<fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 4:44 AM
Subject: VMware Workstation and FC5T2 Working??
Has anyone gotten VMWare Workstation working under FC5T2? I'm getting the
following problem where the config script is telling me
that the headers are incorrect. Does anyone have a way around this?
Thanks
Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.
None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for
your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module
for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)?
[yes]
Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.1915_FC5-smp-i686/include
The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the
same
address space size as your running kernel.
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
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From a Tom London message on this list:
There is a bug in the vmware-config.pl script that is exposed by
changes to the newer kernel headers.
I've reported this to vmware:
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=31877&tstart=0
Here is the patch described there:
--- vmware-config.pl.old 2005-12-15 21:55:24.000000000 -0800
+++ vmware-config.pl 2006-02-04 16:53:06.000000000 -0800
@@ -1969,8 +1969,8 @@
. ' -E - | ' . shell_string($gHelper{'grep'}) . ' '
. shell_string($pattern));
chomp($header_page_offset);
- $header_page_offset =~ s/^$pattern \(?0x([0-9a-fA-F]{8,}).*$/$1/;
- if ($header_page_offset =~ /[0-9a-fA-F]{8,}/) {
+ if ($header_page_offset =~ /^$pattern \(?0x([0-9a-fA-F]{8,})/) {
+ $header_page_offset = $1;
# We found a valid page offset
if (defined($gSystem{'page_offset'}) and
not (lc($header_page_offset) eq lc($gSystem{'page_offset'}))) {
I am able to build a vmware 5.5 system with a couple of patches to vmware.
One is in the makefile.kernel in vmmon and vmnet directory. The other is
the patch above. See the vmware forum for the latest. I am also building
on a x86_64 box. BTW, you will also need to mount /proc/bus/usb on
/sys/bus/usb by doing "mount -t usbfs /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb" if you
want vmware to see any USB devices. Also make sure you have the
kernel-devel rpm installed.
Jim
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