Stefan Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I wondered if anyone can help me with integrating this module into
> the unattended linuxboot image. I'd create it if someone'd give me a
> hint on how to do this (I already changed the linuxboot makefiles to
> include the expat libs, so I already know a little about how it's
> working in general).

I am in the process of integrating your expat and perl-XML patches;
thank you!

> The kernel module for vmxnet comes with the esx|gsx server and I
> suppose it's not available for download on vmware's
> website. Therefore I've just put the sources on my webspace [1].

The instructions here:

http://www.vmware.com/support/esx/doc/install_guest_esx.html

...include a link to the driver tarball here:

http://www.vmware.com/software/esx/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz

Unfortunately, this appears to be an old version.  Unless we can get a
stable and public URL from which to download, or a copy of some kind
of open source license for the code (so we can bundle it), I do not
think I can add this to the distribution.

That said, I downloaded it from your site and looked over the
Makefile.  It looks like you should be able to make it build using
something like:

  make HEADER_DIR=$(cwd)/$(linux)/include

Then you can copy the .ko module to stage1/lib/modules/... and figure
out how to run "depmod" to rebuild the modules.dep file.

Convince VMware to release the driver as a public download and/or
under a GPL-compatible license and I will do this myself...

 - Pat


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