On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:11, Alex Angerhofer wrote:
AFAIK there is no vmxxx.o that comes with the update kernel. There is only the sources for these objects and that comes with the CD set as km_vmware. Thus, when you follow David's instructions, you will end up compiling the modules with the new kernel in place. At that point you can then setup vmware provided that you don't replace the newly compiled modules with their shipped ones (or the ones that had been previously compiled with a different kernel in place). In other words, you have to make sure that you use the newly compiled modules or else the kernel will not like them.
Cheers, Alex.
Thanx Alex, much appreciate your help. Sooo, should I remove these modules, bring in the 166 Kernel, then reinsert Km_vmare, then try to see if i can reinstall vmware without over-writing the suse supplied vmxxx.o modules? tia Dimitris
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, plain wrote:
Does this mean that we do not have to "save" vmnet.o and vm-somethin.o from the 144 version, as suggested in an ealier post? Dimitris
On Thursday 29 January 2004 14:32, Alex Angerhofer wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, David Bottrill wrote:
On Thursday 29 January 2004 20:51, Luis-Miguel Astudillo wrote:
Has anyone installed VMWare v4.0 on Suse 9.0 and if successfull what are the steps.
Luis,
There have been a lot of posts regarding this in the past, and there have been a number of solutions. The one that worked for me is as follows:
Firstly make sure you have the kernel source installed along with GCC, YAST should sort out any dependencies. I'm not sure if this is really required but goto /usr/src/linux and as root run the following commands:
make cloneconfig make dep
Go to http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1804
Here there is information on installing VMWare on the 2.6 kernel using a patch called any-any-update.
Follow the instructions and you will find VMWare works extremely well. If you have the 2.4.21-166 updated kernel using Yast Online Update, make sure you have also installed the updated kernel source from SuSE.
and don't forget to *not* install the vmware modules that came with vmware when you run the vmware-config.pl script, or if it does that automatically, replace them with your own freshly compiled ones.
Alex.