VMware vmmon building error

Akuji · 02-01-2004, 07:25 AM

I'm trying to install VMware 4 on my Slack 9.1 box, but I can't get the vmmon module compiled

When I run

Quote:

vmware-config.pl --compile

and point the script to

Quote:

/usr/src/linux-2.6.1/include

it ends with this error:

Quote:

../linux/driver.c: At top level:
../linux/driver.c:133: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
../linux/driver.c: In function `init_module':
../linux/driver.c:246: structure has no member named `prev'
../linux/driver.c:247: structure has no member named `next'
make[2]: *** [driver.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/driver-2.6.1'
make[1]: *** [driver] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
make: *** [auto-build] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".

Execution aborted.

What's going wrong?

Kovacs · 02-01-2004, 07:29 AM

You need to download the 2.6 patch from http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/

IIRC unpack it and run runme.pl instead of the vmware-install script, then vmware-config.pl and you should be good to go. More info at http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1804

For some reason I could never get the cdrom to read cds under XPPro with VMWare and 2.6, although it worked fine with 2.4 (but I never really tried very hard).

Akuji · 02-01-2004, 07:58 AM

yep that did the trick, thanx man