Quoting Michael A Coan :

Jeffrey,

On Thursday 04 March 2004 16:30, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

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Quoting Michael A Coan :

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I have read all the messages related to problems getting VMWorkstation 4 running with the latest SuSE kernel.

I tried the method related to using the vmware-any-any-update.tar.gz file When invoking the runme.pl script, it failed to compile the vmmon.o module with the error (among others)

cannot exec cc1plus.

Install the C++ compiler.

Thanks a bunch. I only had gcc installed. Can you tell I am a lawyer and not a programmer :)

No, I cannot tell you are a lawyer ;} Jeffrey

On Thursday 04 March 2004 06:11 pm, Michael A Coan wrote:

Excellent :)  Installing the C++ compiler did the trick.  I applied the vmware-any-any-53 patch, and VMWorkstation 4.0.5 works like a charm.  Service pack 1 for XP Pro is installing right now.

Can you give me a clue as to how that patch gets installed?? I downloaded: vmware-any-any-update53.tar.gz and it's not a tar.gz file at all. It seems to be a shell script without any instructions as to what to do with it..... -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 03/04/04 18:49 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training." - Anna Freud

It is running here just fine under 2.4.21-192-default. Alex. On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Charles wrote:

so were you able to get VMWARE running under 2.4.21-192?

Thanks Charles

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On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Charles wrote:

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 18:53, Alex Angerhofer wrote:

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It is running here just fine under 2.4.21-192-default. Alex.

What did you put for

### What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory. ###

Well, it is one here. Did you install the kernel source rpm?

Were you even prompted for it?

Sure. That comes up when you execute vmware-config.pl. Hope this helps, ALex.

I never fooled with the any-any patch. No, it looks like you don't have the package "kernel-source" installed on your system. You will need that in order to get its include files which in turn you need to compile the vmware sources. Best regards, Alex. On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Charles wrote:

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Well, it is one here. Did you install the kernel source rpm?

do you mean the any any patch? or something else?

Thanks for helping me with this :)

--Charles

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Okay. /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-99 is the original source version that came on your 9.0 discs. You obviously have to update those as well after you updated the binary kernel. I suggest you mosey over to YOU and get that kernel-source package updated so its version corresponds to your current binary, 2.4.21-192. Best regards, Alex. On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Charles wrote:

duh,,, that one.. Yea.. I have that one installed.. and it still asks me.. its odd, I even tell it

/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-99/include or /usr/src/linux/include

But I still get..

The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is an existing directory, but it does not contain at least one of these directories "linux", "asm", "net" as expected.

--Charles

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Hi all, could anyone please post the links to download both the "any-any patch" and the 2.4.21-192-default kernel? I just found this http://ftp.leo.org/download/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/suse/suse/i386/update/9.0... but it seems to be the pre-compiled kernel, not the sources I need... TIA, Martin Alex Angerhofer wrote:

Okay. /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-99 is the original source version that came on your 9.0 discs. You obviously have to update those as well after you updated the binary kernel. I suggest you mosey over to YOU and get that kernel-source package updated so its version corresponds to your current binary, 2.4.21-192.

Best regards, Alex.

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Charles wrote:

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duh,,, that one.. Yea.. I have that one installed.. and it still asks me.. its odd, I even tell it

/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-99/include or /usr/src/linux/include

But I still get..

The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is an existing directory, but it does not contain at least one of these directories "linux", "asm", "net" as expected.

--Charles

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 08:49, Ron Joffe wrote:

There are no instructions with the any-any update patch, but basically all I did was (not sure if all steps are truly necessary, but...):

1. Install the new kernel and kernel sources. 2. Using YaST, disable vmware services 3. Reboot.

There is no need to reboot or disable the vmware services in YaST. Simply use /etc/init.d/vmware stop to shutdown vmware and install the any-any patch using steps 1, 4(a,b,c), 5, 6 (a,b,c), 7 and 9.

4. As root, run: 4a. cd /usr/src/linux 4b. make cloneconfig 4c. make dep && make clean 5. Unpack the vmware-any-any-update51.tar.gz patch 6. Run as root the runme.pl script from the any-any patch. 6a. Allow the runme.pl script to overwrite the modules. 6b. Ignore any errors. 6c. Allow the runme.pl script to launch vmware-config.pl. 7. Allow vmware-config.pl to build the modules. 8. Re-enable vmware services in YaST 9. Launch VMware.

I have used this procedure installing different kernels and updates to them. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)

is there any other way to install VMware on SuSE 9.0, such as RPM or APT, than going through this patch/compile nightmare? :)

It was easy once I got all my ducks in a row. I didnt even need the AnyAny patch.. just install and go.. --Charles

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 13:34, Martin Mielke wrote:

is there any other way to install VMware on SuSE 9.0, such as RPM or APT, than going through this patch/compile nightmare? :)

Martin

SuSE used to supply the modules with the kernel updates, don't know why they do not anymore other than a licensing issue. But until they start to supply the modules again it is up to us to compile our own. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)