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#1 2009-10-04 09:20:53

sharpie
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From: Phoenix, AZ
Registered: 2008-11-16
Posts: 72

Installing VMWare fails trying to MAKE vmmon module.

Hey Arch users, thanks for reading.  I've tried this on two different machines now.  Both of which yield the same error.  I untar vmware like and run the vmware-install.py script after creating the rc0.d through rc6.d directories.  It works up to where it tells me there's no vmmon modules for Server that're suitable.  It then asks em if I want to have the script build them and well the rest is in between the code brackets:

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.30-ARCH/build/include] 

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30-ARCH/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-ARCH'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:31:
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'
include/linux/poll.h:67: note: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was here
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vmware.h:38,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:99:
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_basic_types.h:108:7: warning: "__FreeBSD__" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vcpuset.h:103,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/modulecall.h:37,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./common/vmx86.h:33,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:29,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:101:
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:329:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:333:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:401:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:407:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:460:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:506:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:551:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:595:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:640:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:684:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:729:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:773:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:775:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:816:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:860:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:862:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:903:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:945:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:947:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:986:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1028:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1030:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1069:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1223:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1227:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1313:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1536:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1663:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_atomic.h:1796:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86_64.h:39,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm.h:41,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:103:
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86.h:486:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86.h:779:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86.h:820:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86.h:922:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm.h:41,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:103:
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86_64.h:56:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:119:
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/./common/hostif.h:53:7: warning: "WINNT_DDK" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriverSyncCallOnEachCPU':
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1423: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriver_Ioctl':
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'euid'
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'egid'
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'
/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-ARCH'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please 
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-products" and 
"http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-tools".

Execution aborted.

Now, I've tried the any-to-any patch, or at least the latest version I could find.  It gives me other similiar "________ is not defined" errors and still doesn't build.  I made sure that all three of the xlib files are up to date, as well as xinitd and base-devel and still I'm having this problem.  I frankly don't know where to go from here.  Is it something I've left out of ALL of my Arch installs?

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