<DIV id=RTEContent><BR><BR><B><I>"James C. Bevier" <jim@jbsys.com></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <div><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Dwaine Garden" <DWAINEGARDEN@ROGERS.COM><BR>To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <BR><FEDORA-TEST-LIST@REDHAT.COM><BR>Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 4:44 AM<BR>Subject: VMware Workstation and FC5T2 Working??<BR><BR><BR>> Has anyone gotten VMWare Workstation working under FC5T2? I'm getting the <BR>> following problem where the config script is telling me<BR>> that the headers are incorrect. Does anyone have a way around this?<BR>><BR>> Thanks<BR>><BR>> Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.<BR>><BR>> None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for <BR>> your<BR>> running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module!
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for<BR>> your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? <BR>> [yes]<BR>><BR>> Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.<BR>><BR>> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your <BR>> running<BR>> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]<BR>><BR>> The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.<BR>><BR>> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your <BR>> running<BR>> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] <BR>> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.1915_FC5-smp-i686/include<BR>><BR>> The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the <BR>> same<BR>> address space size as your running kernel.<BR>><BR>> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your <BR>> running<BR>> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]<BR>> -- <BR><BR>>From a Tom London message on this list:<BR><BR>Th!
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bug in the vmware-config.pl script that is exposed by<BR>changes to the newer kernel headers.<BR><BR>I've reported this to vmware:<BR>http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=31877&tstart=0<BR><BR>Here is the patch described there:<BR><BR>--- vmware-config.pl.old 2005-12-15 21:55:24.000000000 -0800<BR>+++ vmware-config.pl 2006-02-04 16:53:06.000000000 -0800<BR>@@ -1969,8 +1969,8 @@<BR>. ' -E - | ' . shell_string($gHelper{'grep'}) . ' '<BR>. shell_string($pattern));<BR>chomp($header_page_offset);<BR>- $header_page_offset =~ s/^$pattern \(?0x([0-9a-fA-F]{8,}).*$/$1/;<BR>- if ($header_page_offset =~ /[0-9a-fA-F]{8,}/) {<BR>+ if ($header_page_offset =~ /^$pattern \(?0x([0-9a-fA-F]{8,})/) {<BR>+ $header_page_offset = $1;<BR># We found a valid page offset<BR>if (defined($gSystem{'page_offset'}) and<BR>not (lc($header_page_offset) eq lc($gSystem{'page_offset'}))) {<BR><BR><BR>I am able to build a vmware 5.5 system with a couple of patches to vmware. <BR>One is in t!
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makefile.kernel in vmmon and vmnet directory. The other is <BR>the patch above. See the vmware forum for the latest. I am also building <BR>on a x86_64 box. BTW, you will also need to mount /proc/bus/usb on <BR>/sys/bus/usb by doing "mount -t usbfs /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb" if you <BR>want vmware to see any USB devices. Also make sure you have the <BR>kernel-devel rpm installed.<BR><BR>Jim<BR></div> <div>Jim, thanks for the patch and the mounting for USB devices. I will try it tonight. </div></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>