Re: working VMware install?
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 12:00:50PM -0500, Jason 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.
Have you looked at:
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/
They have many patches for vmware, and the update usually fixes many
issues with the kernel drives. They mention many amd64 things in the
readme.
Len Sorensen
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