Re: [SLE] [SOLVED] VMware 4.0.1 fails to build on SuSE -329 kernels

3 Aug 2003

      hi All,

Thanks for the feedback. the suggestions are not sufficent to bring VMware 
back up. With the help of some foks on the vmware newsgroups you will need a 
modified vmon module to compile. These can be found here:

 ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware and pick vmware-any-any-update38 or later. 

i have used this new code and the vmware now buzzes along nicely once again.

SuSE backported epoll patches from 2.5.x to 2.4.x, and while this caused only 
warning, really bad things happened. The result in vmon is memory 
corruptions.

Hope this helps some others.

BR Jim

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 04:20 am, Philipp Thomas wrote:
...
Richard  [Fri, 1 Aug 2003 08:54:47 -0700]:
...
maybe a week and a half ago, maybe it will assist you.  It handled stuff
for me trying to get VMWare to recognize my athlon kernel:
<quote>
cp /boot/vmlinuz.version.h /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h
cp /boot/vmlinuz.autoconf.h /usr/src/linux/include/linux/autoconf.h
The better way is:
- install kernel_source
 - cd /usr/src/linux
 - make cloneconfig
 - make dep
And then:
...
Then run the vmware config.pl to compile.
Philipp
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Jim Hamilton
Perth, Australia