Re: VMware

[Justin The Cynical <cynical@penguinness.org>]

Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:53 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > On 2009-03-20 21:43 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> > > The older gcc 4.1.3 is not available in debian.snapshot.net .
> > But it is available from the Debian mirrors in the gcc-4.1 package:
> >
> > ,----
> > | % LANG=C gcc-4.1 --version
> > | gcc-4.1 (GCC) 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)
> > ...
> >
> > Please install gcc-4.1 and retry.
>
> Ahh - but I do have gcc-4.1 installed.
>
> > If you still have problems, you may need to set "CC=gcc-4.1" for the
> > vmware modules build.
>
> Did that and it solved the problem.  Thanks (again! ;-) ) a lot!

For those who may not know why this worked...

~$ ls -l /usr/bin/gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2009-02-18 01:03 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.3

~$ ls -l /usr/bin/gcc*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 2009-02-18 01:03 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  90712 2008-10-25 02:38 /usr/bin/gcc-3.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 226568 2009-01-18 10:44 /usr/bin/gcc-4.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 239000 2009-01-02 03:16 /usr/bin/gcc-4.3

Lenny AMD64

As I understand it, specifying CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.1 forces the build 
environment to use the chosen version of GCC, ignoring the default of 
/usr/bin/gcc.

This got me as well when I was experimenting with VMWare Server/Client 
Tools and Lenny, still does on occasion.  *grin*

One other thing, the client tools for VM 2.0... One of the more 
important modules won't compile with the kernel shipped with Lenny 
(vsock = VM communication interface socket).  Search around (I don't 
recall the exact URL where I found it, I think it was on the Ubuntu 
forums) for vmware-config.pl.patch and vmware-config-tools.pl.patch, you 
will need them to get that module compiled.  The VM will run without it, 
but it won't run as well.

And if you find a better way to access the server under Linux that that 
$%#$^%! web UI crap, please let me know!!!