Hello everyone,
Based on Adam's, Robert's and Mark's instructions, I finally was able
to get VMWare 5.0 running. The reason was indeed a failed on-line
update of the kernel. Here's what I did (copied from Mark's message):
After every YOU kernel update:
1. Reboot; ignore the vmware errors in the boot log.
2. su to root
3. cd to /usr/src/linux
4. As root run:
make clean
make cloneconfig
make prepare
vmware-config.pl
5. The vmware script will retain all your old network settings (though
it will prompt you to change them).
6. Ignore warnings about tainting the kernel, but watch to make sure all
of the vmware modules load perfectly.
Thanks to everyone and have a nice day.
Regards
\Steve
On 10/1/05, L. Mark Stone
On Saturday, October 1, 2005 6:41 am, Steve Graegert wrote:
Hi all,
I am running SuSE Linux 9.3 with kernel 2.6.11 and tried to install VMWare 5.0. The SuSE kernel sources have been installed to /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4.-20a. No sources have been placed in /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.9
VMWare does not allow compilation of required kernel modules for the running kernel stating that it can't find the appropriate headers in /usr/src/linux:
"The directory of kernel headers (version 2.6.11.4-20a-default) does not match your running kernel (version 2.6.11.4-21.9-default). Even if the module were to compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel."
I do this all the time; we are heavy VMware users...
After every YOU kernel update:
1. Reboot; ignore the vmware errors in the boot log. 2. su to root 3. cd to /usr/src/linux 4. As root run: make clean make cloneconfig make prepare vmware-config.pl 5. The vmware script will retain all your old network settings (though it will prompt you to change them). 6. Ignore warnings about tainting the kernel, but watch to make sure all of the vmware modules load perfectly.
If all goes well, you can now run vmware again no problem.
HTH, Mark
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