Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4053 mails)

["Jerry Van Brimmer" <jerryvb@xxxxxxx>]

Does this also apply to SuSE 7.1 using Kernel 2.4.0?


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:  Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:10:47 +1200 (NZST)

>SuSE: please add this to the SDB.
>
>
>The complete guide to setting up vmware under SuSE Linux 7.2
>... or some such.
>
>This does not void the warranty, unless the solution which is in 
the sdb
>so far, in sdb/en/html/mwalter_vmware_72.html.
>
>Here are corrected instructions:
>
>
>Applies to:
>
>SuSE Linux 7.2
>Kernel 2.4.4-4GB
>VMware 2.0.4 express (I can't see a reason why workstation should 
be
>	different)
>
>
>Symptom:
>
>During the configuration of vmware (by running vmware-config.pl as
>root) and compilation of the vmware kernel modules, the 
compilation
>fails with missing version.h and modversions.h.
>
>Cause:
>
>SuSE does not install version.h properly, and does not use kernel 
module
>versions in their kernels.
>
>Solution:
>
>Create the missing header files before compiling the vmware kernel
>modules.
>
>1) Install package kernel-source-2.4.4.SuSE
>
>2) Create header files
>
>	cd /usr/src/linux
>	make mrproper
>	make cloneconfig
>	
>	Use the method given in mwalter_vmware_72.html to enable 
module
>	version support, or use xconfig (needs tcl/tk installed) 
instead
>	of menuconfig, or edit the file .config appropriately
>	
>	Note the warning re memory in mwalter_vmware_72.html
>	
>	make dep
>
>  This has created the missing header files. DO NOT COMPILE 
MODULES OR
>  INSTALL THE KERNEL OR MODULES!
>
>3) Provide a missing symlink:
>
>	ln -s ../../etc/init.d/vmware /usr/sbin/rcvmware
>
>   This lets your start the vmware networking with rcvmware 
start/stop,
>   like any other service.
>
>4) Configure vmware
>
>	vmware-config.pl
>
>   this will overwrite the existing vmware modules in
>   /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/. The existing modules are
>   SuSE-supplied (part of package k_deflt or similar) and for 
vmware
>   2.0.3, in other words no good anyway.
>
>
>As for kernels 2.4.7 or 2.4.9, I don't know as I don't eun them 
(yet),
>but previous messages on suse-linux-e suggest that apart from the 
above,
>it is also necessary to apply a small patch to the source of the 
vmware
>kernel modules prior to running vmware-config.pl.
>
>Have fun,
>
>Volker
>
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