Thanks to all who replied. For the record, I did: make cloneconfig # this didn't do the trick - at least by itself, then I make modules and vmware-config.pl ran through to completion. Now, I've got a new problem. When I try to create a virtual machine using my windows installation on /windows/C, vmware complains that it is a read-only system, which given the /etc/fstab line that I have, it certainly appears to be: /dev/hde1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=00 02,nls=utf8 0 0 I tried changing this to: /dev/hde1 /windows/C ntfs rw,users,gid=users,umask=00 02,nls=utf8 0 0 but, I got the same result. How can I make my WinXP partition read-write? Regards and thanks again, Bill On Sunday 03 October 2004 18:45, Mike Tierney wrote:
It looks like there's no kernel configuration file (.config), try doing a:
make cloneconfig
This should query your currently running kernel config and generate the correct ".config" file for you. Then try it again. If that fail try doing a full "make" or make modules/make modules install/make install
Cheers
-----Original Message----- From: Bill Allen [mailto:suse@ballen.fastmail.fm] Sent: Monday, 4 October 2004 12:19 a.m. To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] Problem compiling vmware driver
Hi. I'm trying to install vmware on suse 9.1 professional for amd64 as the host OS. When I run vmware-config.pl I get the following. Any ideas on what is wrong. I have seen that there are people who have gotten vmware to work for this setup, so I suspect that I'm just missing a package or something. Any help appreciated.
Regards, Bill
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What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
Building the vmmon module.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only' make -C /usr/src/linux/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.108' Makefile:438: .config: No such file or directory
WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.108/Module.symvers is missing, modules will have CONFIG_MODVERSIONS disabled.
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/task.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/vmmon.o Building modules, stage 2. /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.108/scripts/Makefile.modpost:38: .config: No such file or directory make[2]: *** No rule to make target `.config'. Stop. make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.108' make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module.
For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and "http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html" .
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