vmmon struct mm_struct has no member named dumpable

pgf

I just rebuilt my 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 kernel to change a parameter and of course had to rerun vmware-config.pl. That failed (silently) to rebuild vmmon,ko. When I dug into it more I found that the build was failing as follows:

guruvan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 132

first off.....to ensure that you don't have to remake those modules for a simple change make certain that the `uname -r` of the new kernel build is the same as the previous one.
I've gotten also into the habit of temporarily moving /lib/modules/* somewhere safe when I run the emerge. If the stuff actually emerges, it looks through the ENTIRE /lib/modules dir and whacks the first set of vmware modules it sees, thus hosing kernel after kernel.. errr......

check the vmware overlay, the vmware-modules ebuilds in the portage tree are not working so good for me - at least, not in conjunction with the ebuilds for vmware-workstation and vmware-server. Near as I can tell, the modules ebuilds are being written for single versions of the vmware product suite. (server2 has the same blocks set......only accepts the one version.)

if you add the overlay, and then unmerge what you have, then emerge server and modules-1.0.0.17-r1 , you should be going. if not, most likely you have a syslog error vmmon version mismatch expecting XXX got YYY. that's an easy fix.

FWIW - I have server-2.0/modules-1.0.0.18 and 2.6.24-zen3 running together, and the gentoo and windows VMs perform quite nicely. People are complaining about the Web interface, but I though it worked pretty well (well, for a web interface)

I've been compiling stuff pretty solid on that VM for the last week. Little bit of a clocking issue, but not too bad (I have a fix for it, but I gotta reboot....not today) No severe performance issues that I see.

I'm not going back to the old version. I am still trying to get the VIconsole working.....

(the vmware modules thing is driving me NUTS) If you still don't got it lemme know.
_________________
Everything is broken......(b.dylan).

guruvan

pgf · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the response.

pgf · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject:

Aarrrrggghhh!

guruvan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 132

no you're doing fine - the stuff that surrounds you is not.

Let's sort this out.....like I said, the ebuild maintainer seems to be hard coding the vmmon version by setting

guruvan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 132

ok just posted the same in another thread.

1.0.0.15-r1 from the overlay works with 2.6.23-gentoo-r3
1.0.0.16-r1 from the overlay works with 2.6.23-gentoo-r3
1.0.0.17-r1 from the overlay works with 2.6.23-gentoo-r3

ok. I meant COMPILES. I can try to load these all up later tonight
_________________
Everything is broken......(b.dylan).

guruvan

pgf · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:32 pm Post subject:

guruvan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 132

back the /lib/modules up an extra time!!

emerge vmware-server-console

you'll probably have to run

/opt/vmware/server/bin/vmware-config.pl
/opt/vmware/server/console/bin/vmware-config-server-console.pl

fire it up! there's a /etc/init.d/vmware to start the modules (and autostart VMs if you choose)

then you'll run /opt/vmware/server/console/vmware-server-console

once you build a VM I highly recommend (for non-windows VMs) the open-vm-tools be emerged on the guest. Those are public source & should go on the guest without a hitch. (I can't just click on "install vmware tools" for a linux guest....works for windows guests)

here's a few clues to getting it to run. These are specifically for server2.x BUT I figured that out by installing 1.04 first.
(follow the vmware instructions FIRST, and the refer to my notes if things are fully running)

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-674321-highlight-.html
_________________
Everything is broken......(b.dylan).

guruvan

pgf · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:14 pm Post subject:

guruvan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 132

ok maybe I misread something? I may have missed something between what we discussed
here [url]https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-641132-highlight-.html
[/url] Take a look at that. I'm off to hunt another patch & grab a fresh sync of the tree, I need to make sure that I 've got the right copies of the ebuilds since I discovered that I hacked a couple things (& had forgotten that I'd done so.)

put up some from /var/log/messages and whatever from startup that might be in /var/log/vmware/hostd.log that show where you started the services so we know why if fails.
_________________
Everything is broken......(b.dylan).

guruvan

guruvan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 132

You may need to check the the modules ebuild against the server ebuild. Ive not done so yet. I need some rest & then I will resync & sort out where we are, and maybe get a chance to roll out another box, and see what works. I'm about to roll out a bunch of upgrades & need to do this all anyhow. [edit - everything seems to take longer than originally anticipated..any project is going to require at least a few trips to the software store.]

The VMWARE_VER in the modules build hard sets the VMMON_VERSION in the vmmon-only/......../iocontrols_compat.h
The server ebuild may or may not specify the correct version of the modules (esp if the are any differences between overlay and main tree)

you can edit the ebuild (making sure the thing specifies the version of the modules you decide should go) then you'd have to do (form the dire the ebuilds are that you edit)

pgf · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject:

guruvan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 132

ok, I'm going to resync my tree & see what that says. (I did not have a fresh one all day yesterday...) I will also go grab a copy of the new 1.05 server.

I don't really have much luck with the straght out the box vmware stuff. and for whatever reason, I haven't had the stuff out of portage or the overlay work everytime either.

I make sure the ebuild for the modules & product agree. (I can help with this)
I mostly use the overlay to install the modules & product. I usually wind up doing this very manually, using the ebuild command rather than the emerge command. I edit the code in between stages. diff diff, Hack Hack, edit compile and (hopefully) back to work.

I install the modules first then the product. (or leave the product installed and re run the ebuild for the modules) the and only then do I run and vmware-whatever.config.pl That will not compile modules for you.

It's a lot of work, but mostly that's been figuring out how to workaround portage and vmware-config.pl. I will make up some modules and put up a what I did to get them a little later.
_________________
Everything is broken......(b.dylan).

guruvan

guruvan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 132

I ran some test builds last night and got good compilations from all the modules sets against several different 2.6.23,24,and25 series kernels. I was unable to compile a server2 series (1.0.0.1

against any kernel. I will test these module sets as soon as possible. If anyone has a .config for a given kernel, I'll be happy to add it to another test build (and send the bins back to you for testing as I don't have server1.0X handy yet)
_________________
Everything is broken......(b.dylan).

guruvan