Which build of vmware are you using? Vmware works for me with an SGI-XFS kernel
from Monday of this week. I am using build 7(?)99 of Vmware (the most recent
one available from their web site)
Tom Duffy <tduffy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>Has anyone gotten vmware to work under pre-release 0.9...
>
>when I run vmware-config.pl, I get the following error:
>
>*snip*
>
>What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
>running kernel? [/usr/src/linux-2.4/include]
>
>Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
>
>Building the vmmon module.
>
>make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
>make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
>make[2]: Entering directory
>`/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.0-SGI_XFS_PR'
>make[2]: Leaving directory
>`/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.0-SGI_XFS_PR'
>make[2]: Entering directory
>`/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.0-SGI_XFS_PR'
>/tmp/ccIEbMf3.s: Assembler messages:
>/tmp/ccIEbMf3.s:8: Warning: Ignoring changed section attributes for
>..modinfo
>make[2]: Leaving directory
>`/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.0-SGI_XFS_PR'
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
>make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
>Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
>/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon.o: unresolved symbol irq_stat
>There is probably a light difference of kernel configuration between the
>set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may want
>to rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory.
>
>For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems,
>please havea look at
>"http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html";.
>
>Execution aborted.
>
>*snip*
>
>this works fine under 2.4.0 kernel. (at least this is what vmware claims
>:)
>
>-tduffy
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John M Trostel
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