<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Poelstra</b> <<a href="mailto:poelstra@redhat.com">poelstra@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ronald Warsow said the following on 03/21/2007 08:08 AM Pacific Time:<br>> Ronald Warsow wrote:<br>>> Jim Bevier wrote:<br>>>><br>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: <<a href="mailto:buildsys@redhat.com">
buildsys@redhat.com</a>><br>>>> To: <<a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a>>; <<a href="mailto:fedora-test-list@redhat.com">fedora-test-list@redhat.com</a>><br>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:10 AM<br>>>> Subject: rawhide report: 20070320 changes<br>>>><br>>>> [clip]<br>>>><br>>>> The last two kernels 2997 & 2999 no longer allows VMWare to build.
<br>>>> Anybody have a fix?<br>>>><br>>>> Jim<br>>><br>>> can't say something to kernels 2997 & 2999, but for previous:<br>>><br>>> cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/
<br>>> tar xvf vmmon.tar<br>>> cd vmmon-only/include<br>>> vi compat_kernel.h<br>>><br>>> line 80:<br>>> #define __NR_compat_exit __NR_exit<br>>> +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,19)
<br>>> static inline _syscall1(int, compat_exit, int, exit_code);<br>>> -<br>>> +#endif<br>>><br>>> tar -cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only<br>>> vmware-config.pl -d<br>>> ------------------------------------------------------
<br>><br>> this advise doesn't work any more !<br>><br>> :\<br>><br>><br><br>I'm seeing the same problem on FC6 and haven't been able to find a fix yet on google.<br><br>With VMwareWorkstation-5.5.3-34685
and running the 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 I cannot rebuild the modules after applying the manual fixes (above) and trying a fresh install of vmware and applying the any-any patch.<br></blockquote></div><br>I had the same problem on FC6. Check out
<a href="http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=35020&forum=10&post_id=156401">http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=35020&forum=10&post_id=156401</a><br><br>and then run the script in
<a href="http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update108.tar.gz">http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update108.tar.gz</a> and download and install the new version of VMWare server, 1.0.2. That worked for me.<br><br>
Gerry<br><br>