Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 09:42 +0100, Stephen Carter wrote:
> Quoting James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > I'm trying to install VMWare Workstation for Linux, on my SuSE 9.3
> > system, but I'm getting errors, when it's trying to build new
> modules.
> > I have the latest kernel and kernel-source.  Here's the output of
> the
> > relevant part.  I've also shown the contents of the /usr/src/linux.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > tnx jk
> 
> If this is Workstation v5, then here is what I did on my SuSE 9.3 box
> to get it running.  I've done this a couple of times and has worked
> without a hitch:
> 
> Install from YaST: (accepting all dependencies)
> - kernel-source
> - kernel-syms
> - gcc
> 
> As root, open a terminal window and run:
> vmware-config.pl
> 
> It will fail at the same point you stated, at which point you need to
> note what kernel source directory is prompted by the script.
> 
> Open another terminal window and run:
> cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.xxxxx/
> where xxxx is the directory vmware-config.pl prompted you with
> earlier.
> 
> Now run:
> make oldconfig && make

Should be:
make cloneconfig && make prepare-all

There is no need to actually make any part and make prepare-all runs
much faster than just plain make which actually does compile many
things.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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