I tried to install Vmware-3.1.1 from the tar.gz file from vmware.com over the weekend. It was going onto my SMP box, the kernel of which I'd upgraded to the latest kernel from the 8.0 updates. I'd upgraded the kernel and kernel source packages. Vmware wasn't having it. When it came to compile it's modules it first told me that the headers in /usr/src/linux where for the wrong kernel - "-4GB" instead of the running "-64GB". I copied the file /boot/vmlinuz.version.h over the version.h in the source tree and tried again. Then it told me the headers were for a uni-processor kernel, but I was running an SMP kernel. Have I missed a step? Are the files in the kernel source RPM, not, in fact, the sources to the SMP kernel I'm running? -- 8:50am up 11 days, 23:28, 1 user, load average: 0.28, 0.09, 0.04
On Monday 05 August 2002 09:59, Derek Fountain wrote:
Have I missed a step? Are the files in the kernel source RPM, not, in fact, the sources to the SMP kernel I'm running?
After you've installed the kernel-source rpm you need to cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper make cloneconfig make dep touch /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h If you can get vmware running on the SuSE 64GB SMP kernel please let me know. For me it was necessary to recompile the kernel and remove the 64GB support (making it -4GB instead) //Anders -- `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
On Monday 05 August 2002 9:02 am, you wrote:
On Monday 05 August 2002 09:59, Derek Fountain wrote:
Have I missed a step? Are the files in the kernel source RPM, not, in fact, the sources to the SMP kernel I'm running?
After you've installed the kernel-source rpm you need to
cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper make cloneconfig make dep touch /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h
And this rewrites the header files, or something?
If you can get vmware running on the SuSE 64GB SMP kernel please let me know. For me it was necessary to recompile the kernel and remove the 64GB support (making it -4GB instead)
I saw something in the sdb about this, so thanks for the specific warning. -- 9:09am up 11 days, 23:48, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00
On Monday 05 August 2002 10:13, Derek Fountain wrote:
And this rewrites the header files, or something?
Yep, a few header files and a few config files.
I saw something in the sdb about this
Heh, you're absolutely right. Here I am cursing the number of people who never read the sdb and other reference sources, and I'm guilty of the same thing myself :) Sorry //Anders -- `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
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