Well wow, thanks John! That worked! Where did you get that? Is that direction from support? Mark - Can you expand on this? Thanks Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: John Dell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm successfully running vmware 4.5.2 on SuSE 9.1 The solution is to do the following: cd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig make prepare then run vmware-config.pl I really have no idea how this makes it work, but it does :-) Regards, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Been trying to install (evaluation copy) of VMWare on Suse 9.1 Pro >and it's driving me nuts. > >At this point I'm so tired and bleary eyed - I'm sure I am overlooking >something very basic and simple but I've looked at it too long. >But it's something in the make I think. >And I think I missed something in the modules I need to load >to cover all the dependencies.... > >Here's a copy of the input and output - >Would someone please look at it and tell me what I'm missing >thanks > >Dennis > >linux:~ # perl /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl >Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped. > >Stopping VMware services: > Virtual machine monitor done > >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] 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] > >Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. > >Building the vmmon module. > >Using 2.6.x kernel build system. >make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only' >make -C /usr/src/linux/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules >make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.108' >Makefile:438: .config: No such file or directory > >WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.108/Module.symvers is >missing, modules will have CONFIG_MODVERSIONS disabled. > > CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o >/bin/sh: line 1: scripts/basic/fixdep: No such file or directory >make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 >make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2 >make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.108' >make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 >make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/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. > > > >_______________________________________________ >RLUG mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > >
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