On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 12:00:50PM -0500, Jason wrote: > > I was curious if anyone's had any luck getting VMware to work? They > claim experimental support for 64bit processors, but I keep getting an > error when it tries to compile it's kernel modules. Thx. > > -j > > Using 2.6.x kernel build system. > make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only' > make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8jro-2004092301/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD > SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8' > CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o > CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o > /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function > `MapCrossPage': > /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:566: error: > `PAGE_KERNEL_EXECUTABLE' undeclared (first use in this function) > /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:566: error: (Each > undeclared identifier is reported only once > /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:566: error: for each > function it appears in.) > make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8' > make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 > make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only' > Unable to build the vmmon module.
Have you looked at: http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ They have many patches for vmware, and the update usually fixes many issues with the kernel drives. They mention many amd64 things in the readme. Len Sorensen
