On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:24, Gary Gapinski wrote:
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 11:58, Henry Harpending wrote:
I am in vmware hades with SuSE 9.0 and an athlon kernel. I have read the discussion on the list about this, and I gather that I essentially must use the kernel modules that came with SuSE rather than those that vmware-config.pl tries to install.
I installed the rpm km_vmware and tried to compile them following the READMEs. No luck.
km_vmware is just the module source.
The modules are part of the kernel binary RPM. On my system, for example, /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-smp4G/misc/vmnet.o is part of k_smp4G-2.4.21-144 (determined using rpm -qf)..
Then I did "pin vmware" and discovered a vmware rpm supposedly on cd1. Ahah, I thought, that must have the mysterious kernel modules already, I will just install that.
But it is not on the DVD. I searched both sides of the DVD, no vmware-anything on it. My CDs are at the office somewhere: does anyone know if it really is on the CD?
I don't think it is on the 9.0 distribution. The latest version of VMware Workstation or GSX should be obtained from VMware.
Am I on the right track trying to get vmware installed?
Re-install the kernel binary just in case you have mistakenly used VMware modules created as part of vmware-config.pl.
Install the kernel sources.
As root cd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig make dep
Then, vmware-config.pl and do not allow vmware-config.pl to install kernel modules.
Yes, they are part of the kernel binaries. Apparently I let vmware-config.pl overwrite them, then when I uninstalled the RPM it took them away. So there is no need or use for the mysterious SuSE demo RPM of vmware 3, right? I have a new 4 RPM from vmware. Two questions: 1. Why do the kernel recompilation? Doesn't "make cloneconfig" just deliver what I already have installed? 2. I don't remember vmware-config.pl asking me for permission to overwrite the kernel modules. Do I say no at the point where it suggests compiling some new ones? Thanks, Henry Harpending