Re: Installing VMware on Debian 3.1 kernel 2.6.14

[Martijn Marsman <mmarsman@afab.nl>]

Well Renee Klawitter helped me,

and youre right, it was the patch, its all working now!

thnx for your help all.

Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,

Martijn Marsman <mmarsman@afab.nl>

System Engineer
AFAB Geldservice B.V.


Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
>     I'm not currently running 2.6.14 but I am running VMWare Workstation
> 5 installed on Debian Testing/Etch running on an AMD64 machine. Have you
> gotten the
> vmware-any-any-update94.tar.gz update and installed it?
>
>     Regards,
>     Jeremy
>
> Martijn Marsman wrote:
>
>
> > Hello list :D
> >
> > Iam installing VMware for linux on my Debian 3.1 machine
> >
> > uname -a --> Linux Covenant 2.6.14-686 #1 PREEMPT Mon Nov 7 16:59:27
> > CET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> > i have installed it before and it worked perfect, but now on my new
> > system, it refuses to compile a module (vmnet). the output is this:
> > /
> > Extracting the sources of the vmnet module.
> >
> > Building the vmnet module.
> >
> > Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
> > make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only'
> > make -C /lib/modules/2.6.14-686/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD
> > SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.14'
> > CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.o
> > In file included from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vnet.h:14,
> >                from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:10,
> >                from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.c:40:
> > /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vm_atomic.h:54:5: warning: "_MSC_VER"
> > is not defined
> > In file included from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vm_oui.h:13,
> >                from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:11,
> >                from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.c:40:
> > /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vm_basic_asm.h:48:5: warning:
> > "_MSC_VER" is not defined
> > /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.c: In function
> > `VNetProcessOwnsPort':
> > /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.c:1698: error: structure has no
> > member named `max_fds'
> > make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.14'
> > make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
> > make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only'
> > Unable to build the vmnet module.
> >
> > For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems,
> > please
> > visit our Web site at
> > "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html"; and
> > "http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html";.
> >
> >
> > Execution aborted.
> >
> > Covenant:/home/tijn/vmware-distrib#
> > /
> > i dont know what _MSC_VER is, or what it does.
> >
> > is this a common problem, did more people had this issue with a newer
> > kernel?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
> >
> > Martijn Marsman <mmarsman@afab.nl>
> >
> > System Engineer
> > AFAB Geldservice B.V.
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