Re: VMware installation problem
vmware's got support for 2.6 kernels as of about 1 or 2 weeks ago - try
downloading again and get build -7568.
Glenn
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 01:51, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote:
> Dne po 22. března 2004 12:42 Cameron Hutchison napsal(a):
> > Once upon a time Miroslav Maiksnar said...
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > when installing vmware eval on my debian sarge I encounter problem
> > > compiling modules. Install scripts refuses to compile modules because
> > > `uname -r` ('2.6.3-alfons32-2') differs from UTS_RELEASE ('2.6.3').
> > > Kernel is of course compiled using `make-kpkg --append-to-version=...`
> > > and I need to run different kernels with equal version, so leaving off
> > > --append-to-version is not option for me.
> >
> > I have also had problems building the vmware modules. What ended up
> > working for me is to run vmware-config.pl, let it fail. At this point
> > $KSRC/include/linux/version.h has been regenerated without the
> > --append-to-version string. So I manually edit this file to put back on
> > the --append-to-version string and then run vmware-config.pl again. This
> > time, the build seems to work.
>
> Thanks for hint, I have tried this and it seems vmware doesn't support 2.6
> kernels. Unfortunatelly I need 2.6 on both of my computers, so I have to wait
> for some future version... ;o(
>
> Thanks anyway
>
> Mixi
>
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