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awmemon

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Registered: 2013-01-28

Posts: 8

Recompiling vmware modules after kernel upgrade

Hello all

I just upgraded my ARCH system using pacman -Syu and the resulting kernel is 3.7.4-1-ARCH. Usually, after every upgrade I run the following command to recompile vmware modules.

$ sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

But this time I am getting the error as "Failed to setup build environment". I have checked the linux-headers and they are compatible with the running kernel. But I am confused with one thing. The kernel is 3.7.4-1-ARCH but the linux-headers is 3.7.4-1. Does it pose any problem in searching the proper kernel headers. If yes, then what is the solution to this.

Thanks.

awmemon

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Registered: 2013-01-28

Posts: 8

Re: Recompiling vmware modules after kernel upgrade

With the new kernel v 3.7, you need to symlink the following version file.

ln -s /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h

BadgerTheFat

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Registered: 2012-11-03

Posts: 1

Re: Recompiling vmware modules after kernel upgrade

Thank you very much!