Re: [RLUG] vmware on linux

[John Dell]

Hi Dennis,
I don't really recall where I found it, but it involved a lot of 
googling :-)  I have no idea if that is an 'officially supported' way of 
getting it to work, but it seems innocuous to me. Just refreshing the 
kernel configs (or something like that) so vmware build script can find 
everything it needs.

I second the comment about legacy support for CD, that usually does the 
trick for making CD's bootable in vmware.

Regards,
John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 

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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.  


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