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On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, plain wrote:
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
The way I solved the problem here is basically this: 1.) Install km_vmware and the default kernel sources with YaST2 2.) Update the kernel to the latest version (either 9.0 stock or the later default kernel via YOU) 3.) make sure that VMWare is stopped: /etc/init.d/vmware stop 4.) Make dep in the kernel source tree: cd /usr/src ln -s linux-2.4.xxx linux cd linux make cloneconfig make dep && clean 5.) Recompile the VMWare kernel modules cd /usr/src/kernel-modules/vmware make -f Makefile.module make -f Makefile.module install save the object files that are generated by this step in /usr/src/kernel-modules/vmware in a save place for later use 6.) Run vmware-config.pl If it allows you to skip the compile step for the vmmon and vmnet modules do that. If it insists on carrying out that step, let it have its will, then later on copy the saved modules into their proper place in /usr/src/kernel-modules/vmware This should do the trick. By the way, alt.linux.suse is full with contributions to the subject. Thus, a google search will unearth lots of variations on the theme. Best regards, Alex.