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#1 2010-08-23 17:18:11
- rdowdall
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VMWare 6.5.4 and Kernel 2.6.35
When I upgrade my kernel version to 2.6.35, and then try and run vmware-modconfig --console --install-all I get:
gcc and kernel headers must be installed
Gcc is installed and if I run vmware-modconfig --console --get-gcc it returns the correct path.
If I run vmware-modconfig --console --get-kernel-headers it returns nothing, but there is a /usr/src/linux-2.6.35-ARCH directory.
The same installation works fine with the 2.6.34 kernel.
Anybody got any ideas?
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Rodney Dowdall
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#2 2010-08-23 17:57:49
- rdowdall
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Re: VMWare 6.5.4 and Kernel 2.6.35
I'm going to give this a try in a bit:
http://bovitron.com/blogostu/2010/06/01 … -2-6-33-4/
This is probably the cause of my error.
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#3 2010-08-23 18:05:02
- wonder
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Re: VMWare 6.5.4 and Kernel 2.6.35
you would need to update/install kernel26-headers too and i think you will need to hunt for vmware patches too
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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#4 2010-08-23 19:15:02
- rdowdall
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Re: VMWare 6.5.4 and Kernel 2.6.35
I did have the headers updated. I tried installing the patches, but vmware-modconfig would not initialize the compile because it couldn't find the kernel headers.
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#5 2010-08-23 19:44:52
- wonder
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Re: VMWare 6.5.4 and Kernel 2.6.35
it would be usefully to post some output and some logs if vmware-modconfig do some
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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#6 2010-08-27 17:37:01
- rdowdall
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Re: VMWare 6.5.4 and Kernel 2.6.35
The issue was that the autoconf.h and the utsrelease.h files need to be linked from /usr/src/linux-2.6.35-ARCH/include/generated to /usr/src/linux-2.6.35-ARCH/include/linux. After that I applied the patches that I needed from VMWare and everything compiled and ran fine.
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#7 2010-08-27 18:30:57
- tomk
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Re: VMWare 6.5.4 and Kernel 2.6.35
Using a more recent vmware version works too. 7.0.1 works fine for me - after patching of course - and I've seen similar reports from 7.1.1 users.
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