Re: vmware-modules on AMD64

[Markus Hirschmann <durtro@ginnungagap.de>]

Hi Seb

seb@frankengul.org wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:48:53PM +0100, Markus Hirschmann wrote:
>
> > System is sarge with kernel-image 2.6.8-11 (-amd64-k8), the right
> > kernel-headers are installed.
> >
> > There is also gcc-3.4 (which was used to compile the kernel) and symlink 
> > from /usr/bin/gcc.
> >
> > I get the following error:
> >
> >  CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
> > /usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1: error: code model
> > `kernel' not supported in the 32 bit mode
>
> Try to increase the verbosity of the build by putting V=1 in the
> make command that builds the modules.

I did, see below.

Thank you.

Markus

Output:

indik:/usr/src/modules/vmware# LC_ALL=C debian/rules binary-modules 
KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8/
export DH_OPTIONS='-pvmware-modules-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8'
# Is this needed for setting up a Depends?
#echo "kpkg:Package-Version=4.5.2-8848-0fbriere.3+2.6.8-10-amd64-k8" \
#        >> debian/vmware.substvars
echo "kpkg:Kernel-Version=2.6.8-10-amd64-k8" > \
        debian/vmware-modules-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8.substvars
# The substvars mechanism seems slightly broken, hack to get around it
# stolen from the qce-ga package. Yaaaa!
rm -f debian/control
sed -e 's/${kpkg\:Kernel\-Version}/2.6.8-10-amd64-k8/' \
debian/control.in > debian/control
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k
# Build the module
/usr/bin/make KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8/ 
KVERS=2.6.8-10-amd64-k8
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/vmware'
rm -rf *.o *.ko
/usr/bin/make V=1 VM_UNAME=2.6.8-10-amd64-k8 
HEADER_DIR=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8//include -C 
vmmon-only auto-build
Unable to find VMware installation database. Using 'vmware'.
Building for VMware Workstation 4.5.2 or VMware GSX Server 3.1.0.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only'
make -C /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8//include/.. 
SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8'
mkdir -p /usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only/.tmp_versions
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only
  gcc -Wp,-MD,/usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only/linux/.driver.o.d 
-nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude  -Wall 
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common 
-march=k8 -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -pipe -fno-reorder-blocks 
-Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables 
-O2-fomit-frame-pointer   -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes 
-DVME_DEFAULT=VME_V452 -DVMW_USING_KBUILD 
-I/usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only/./include 
-I/usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only/./common 
-I/usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only/./linux 
-I/usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only/./vmcore 
-DVMWARE__FIX_IO_APIC_BASE=FIX_IO_APIC_BASE    -DVMW_HAVE_COMPILE_H 
-DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME=driver -DKBUILD_MODNAME=vmmon -c -o 
/usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only/linux/.tmp_driver.o 
/usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c
/usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1: error: code model 
`kernel'not supported in the 32 bit mode
make[4]: *** [/usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8'
make[2]: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/vmware/vmmon-only'
make[1]: *** [build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/vmware'
make: *** [binary-modules] Error 2
indik:/usr/src/modules/vmware#