On Tuesday 20 October 2009 07:15:45 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Jim Cunning <jcunn...@cunning.ods.org> wrote: [...] > > vmware-workstation-5.5.9 seems to require *only* vmware-modules-1.0.0.15. > > Is there a way I can change this and rebuild both vmware and its kernel > > modules? > > You could perhaps emerge the newer modules with --nodeps and see if it > works. You might have to put the old vmware-modules package into > package.provided so emerge doesn't complain about it. This worked so far as to get the modules built and loaded. Then vmware 5.5.9 complained about mismatched interface version numbers. > There are patches to supposedly make it work (it requires patching > your kernel as well as your vmware-module sources): > http://www.insecure.ws/2009/04/21/vmware-specific-specific-55x-and-kernel-2 > 629 More involved than I want to undertake, and also would require repeating each time the kernel were updated.
> Other possible actions would be to go back to older kernel or upgrade > to newer vmware-workstation. :) I bit the bullet and upgraded to vmware-workstation-6.5.3. Much easier. It just drops in and works. -- Jim
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