Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2112 mails)

[Shawn Protsman <protsman@xxxxxxx>]

On Aug 1, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Shawn Protsman wrote:

> On Jul 31, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Bob Ewart wrote:
> > Hi Randall,
> >
> > That was a problem with installing vmware on an openSUSE 11.0 system.
> >
> > <snip>
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> Thanks for the info. I added the version.h file and just answered  
> 'yes' to the gcc bug. The next issue is the vmmemctl module. I'm  
> going to compile the open-vm-tools and replace the vmware-tools  
> modules with those. Here is the output of the original vmware-tools  
> vmmemctl error:
>
> Extracting the sources of the vmmemctl module.
>
> Building the vmmemctl module.
>
> Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
> make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmemctl-only'
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.25.11-0.1-default/build/include/.. SUBDIRS= 
> $PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.25.11-0.1-obj/x86_64/ 
> default'
> make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.11-0.1 O=/usr/src/linux-2.6.25.11-0.1- 
> obj/x86_64/default/. modules
>  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmemctl-only/os.o
> In file included from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmemctl-only/os.c:40:
> /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmemctl-only/compat_wait.h:37:5: warning:  
> "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
> /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmemctl-only/compat_wait.h:43:5: warning:  
> "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
> In file included from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmemctl-only/os.c:40:
> /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmemctl-only/compat_wait.h:60: error:  
> conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.11-0.1/include/linux/poll.h:65: error:  
> previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
> make[4]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmemctl-only/os.o] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmemctl-only] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.25.11-0.1-obj/x86_64/ 
> default'
> make: *** [vmmemctl.ko] Error 2
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmemctl-only'
> Unable to build the vmmemctl module.
>
> The memory manager driver (vmmemctl module) is used by VMware host  
> software to
> efficiently reclaim memory from a virtual machine.
> If the driver is not available, VMware host software may instead  
> need to swap
> guest memory to disk, which may reduce performance.
> The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work
> independently of this feature.
> If you want the memory management feature, you can install the  
> driver by
> running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure that gcc,  
> binutils, make
> and the kernel sources for your running kernel are installed on your  
> machine.
> These packages are available on your distribution's installation CD.
> [ Press Enter key to continue ]


The open-vm-tools **resolved** the module issues! Uninstall the  
VMwareTools rpm and extract the tar.gz version. Download the open-vm- 
tools and extract.

@opensuse11 ~/tmp/open-vm-tools-2008.07.01-102166] ./configure  
LDFLGAS="-L/lib64" --without-procps
@opensuse11 ~/tmp/open-vm-tools-2008.07.01-102166] make
@opensuse11 ~/tmp/open-vm-tools-2008.07.01-102166] cd modules/linux/
@opensuse11 ~/tmp/open-vm-tools-2008.07.01-102166/modules/linux] for i  
in *; do mv ${i} ${i}-only; tar -cf ${i}.tar ${i}-only; done
@opensuse11 ~/tmp] cd ../../..
@opensuse11 ~/tmp] mv -f open-vm-tools-2008.07.01-102166/modules/linux/ 
*.tar vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/
@opensuse11 ~/tmp] cd vmware-tools-distrib/
@opensuse11 ~/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib] sudo ./vmware-install.pl

All is well except for my fonts are all so small even after increasing  
their size in the Appearance applet.

--Shawn--
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