On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 09:42 +0100, Stephen Carter wrote:
Quoting James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>:
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 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge