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vinaytp 06-30-2009 11:57 PM

problem in starting vmware player in fedora 9
 
hi all.......

i have vmware player installed on fedora9..when in try to open it using
sudo vmplayer it is showing following message

modinfo: could not find module vmmon
modinfo: could not find module vmnet
modinfo: could not find module vmblock
modinfo: could not find module vmci

then it asks for kernel headers..then i gave the path of those headers as /usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1/include it took the path

then it showed following message....

Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor[ OK ]
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only'
make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/x86.h:20,
from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/machine.h:24,
from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:15,
from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/x86apic.h:79:1: warning: "APIC_BASE_MSR" redefined
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_32.h:29,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h:5,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:8,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1/arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h:13,
from include/linux/smp.h:30,
from include/linux/topology.h:33,
from include/linux/mmzone.h:763,
from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
from include/linux/module.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:12:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1/arch/x86/include/asm/apicdef.h:132:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/machine.h:24,
from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:15,
from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/x86.h:830:1: warning: "PTE_PFN_MASK" redefined
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:7,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:55,
from include/linux/irqflags.h:57,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h:11,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1/arch/x86/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-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:12:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h:22:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/vmhost.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:71:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/compat_semaphore.h:5:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:146: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:147: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:150: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:151: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1670: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.28.1'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only'


can anyone suggest me whats the problem......

Thanks in advance..........

unSpawn 07-02-2009 10:39 AM

Might check Kang's patches (no guarantees so make a backup of your vm.* driver tarballs in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/), download the latest vmware-update-.*.tar.gz from http://www.insecure.ws/warehouse/ and run the ./runme.pl.


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