Re: working VMware install?

[Zoltan Varga <vargaz@gmail.com>]

                                                   Hi,

  Try installating the latest vmware-any-any-update package:

http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/

                                               Zoltan

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:00:50 -0500, Jason <rohwedde@codegrinder.com> 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.
> 
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