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deibertine 04-13-2009 03:15 PM

Issue installing VMware-server-1.0.6-91891 in Fedora 9
 
Hi there,
I just tried to install vmware server 1.0.6 in Fedora 9 and ran into this issue:

Code:
Building the vmmon module.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/./include/machine.h:24,
from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:15,
from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49:
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/./include/x86.h:830:1: warning: "PTE_PFN_MASK" redefined
In file included from include/asm/paravirt.h:7,
from include/asm/irqflags.h:55,
from include/linux/irqflags.h:57,
from include/asm/system.h:11,
from include/asm/processor.h:17,
from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
from include/linux/list.h:6,
from include/linux/module.h:9,
from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:12:
include/asm/page.h:22:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/vmhost.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:71:
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/./include/compat_semaphore.h:5:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:146: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:147: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:150: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:151: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1670: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/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.

Here's my linux kernel:
2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686

I've installed most of the prereqs:
[server@localhost]$ sudo yum install kernel-devel xinetd gcc gcc-c++ perl-devel perl-ExtUtils-Embed
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package kernel-devel-2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686 already installed and latest version
Package 2:xinetd-2.3.14-20.fc9.i386 already installed and latest version
Package gcc-4.3.0-8.i386 already installed and latest version
Package gcc-c++-4.3.0-8.i386 already installed and latest version
Package 4perl-devel-5.10.0-40.fc9.i386 already installed and latest version
Package perl-ExtUtils-Embed-1.27-40.fc9.i386 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

Can someone please advise?
Thanks in advance!

unSpawn 04-14-2009 02:34 AM

Could check Kang's patch. (Make a backup of your vm.* driver tarballs in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/,) download http://www.insecure.ws/warehouse/vmw...5.5.7-2.tar.gz and run the ./runme.pl.


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