https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481137 User estellnb@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481137#c2 Elmar Stellnberger ATK changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Normal |Enhancement --- Comment #2 from Elmar Stellnberger ATK 2009-03-02 13:26:08 MST --- In deed the Vmware installer seems to have problems with 64bit kernels (RedHat: http://communities.vmware.com//thread/172023?tstart=105 (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/172023?tstart=105) Nevertheless vmware-kmp-default could provide a full set of kernel modules (marked as Enhancement). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481137 User dominique.leuenberger@tmf-group.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481137#c4 Dominique Leuenberger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC| |dominique.leuenberger@tmf-g | |roup.com Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #4 from Dominique Leuenberger 2009-03-03 01:14:57 MST --- The vmware-kmp (together with open-vm-tools) is only to be installed in the guest systems, thus sorry to say, this bug is invalid. But as I'm in good mood we discussed similiar report in bug #459749 (was vmware player, the problem is the same). You need this script: --- START SCRIPT --- #/bin/sh cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source for a in *.tar ; do tar xf $a; done pushd vmblock-only; make; popd pushd vmci-only; make; popd pushd vmmon-only; make; popd pushd vmnet-only; make; popd cp vmci-only/Module.symvers vsock-only/ pushd vsock-only; make; popd find -name *.ko -exec cp \ {} /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/misc/ \; depmod -aq --- END SCRIPT --- and then in /etc/init.d/vmware you would find a function vmwareLoadModule() I suggest to change it to: vmwareLoadModule() { /sbin/modprobe "$1" || exit 1 return 0 } and then of course /etc/init.d/vmware start -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481137 User dominique.leuenberger@tmf-group.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481137#c6 Dominique Leuenberger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |prusnak@novell.com --- Comment #6 from Dominique Leuenberger 2009-03-16 09:56:38 MST --- Elmar: The modules are not compiled the same way on the host and on the guest. Several modules require different compile parameters (loading is not equal to providing all functionality). also, the KMP is replacing the amd32 network driver. Should you EVER happen to have this card in your host, the package would break your host network interface (it's replacing the driver for configuration). It is simply out of the scope of this packet to provide the infrastucture for VMWare (at least, as long as VMware itself does not support it in any way based on those modules). @pavol: do you have another view / opinion on this topic? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481137 User estellnb@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481137#c8 --- Comment #8 from Elmar Stellnberger ATK 2009-03-17 03:43:34 MST --- thx for the info (Comment #6). Perhaps it should be mentioned in the package description (at best in the first or second sentence) that this package is not to be installed in a vmware host system; i.e. that the same installation can not function one time as host and another one as guest. Furthermore I would appreciate this package to be called vmware-kmp-default-guest if there should ever be a vmware-kmp-default-host package or that simlply in means of exposing things more clearly. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481137 User estellnb@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481137#c10 --- Comment #10 from Elmar Stellnberger ATK 2009-03-21 08:58:08 MST --- Choice!! thx. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.