JayBee
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Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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 Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 9:15 am Post subject: Configure VMWare when vmware-config.pl fails |
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Configure VMWare when vmware-config.pl fails
These steps are for configuring VMWare workstation when the supplied script fails to compile one of the modules (in my case it was vmnet). I cannot take full credit, as I have taken these steps from a solution on the SuSe website, which can be found here. This worked for me on my Gentoo 1.4 system with GCC 3.2.1, Gentoo-Sources 2.4.19-r7 and VMWare 3.2.0 build-2230, thought it should apply to any release of all components.
Step 1: Correct the vmppuser.o module to make it aware of changes to the 2.4 series of kernels.
| Code: | # cd /opt/vmware/lib/modules/sources
# tar xpf vmppuser.tar
# cd vmppuser-only
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Now open the ppdev.c file for editing, and jump to line 652 (Use Alt-M to goto a line in nano). You should be at the following struct
| Code: | static struct file_operations pp_fops = {
pp_lseek,
pp_read,
pp_write,
NULL, /* pp_readdir */
pp_poll,
pp_ioctl,
NULL, /* pp_mmap */
pp_open,
NULL, /* pp_flush */
pp_release
}; |
Modify it so that it reads
| Code: | static struct file_operations pp_fops = {
THIS_MODULE,
pp_lseek,
pp_read,
pp_write,
NULL, /* pp_readdir */
pp_poll,
pp_ioctl,
NULL, /* pp_mmap */
pp_open,
NULL, /* pp_flush */
pp_release
}; |
Step 2: Compile the module
| Code: | # make
# cp -p vmppuser-{your-kernel-version} /lib/modules/{your-kernel-version}/misc/vmppuser.o
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Step 3: Clean up the VMWare directory and re-run the configuration
| Code: | # cd ..
# rm -rf vmppuser-only
# cd /
# /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl |
When prompted, say yes to compiling the modules. For help on any other part of the config script, check the VMWare website.
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