Vmware Workstation won't compile

[Reindl Harald]

Am 02.08.2011 12:42, schrieb Mark C. Allman:
> On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 13:42 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 01.08.2011 13:39, schrieb Paul Smith:
>>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Lawrence E Graves
>>> <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com> wrote:
>>>> I updated to the new kernel 40-4 and now my vmware workstation will not
>>>> compile. I believe there is a missing program. Please check.
>>>
>>> Consider instead to use VirtualBox:
>>>
>>> http://www.virtualbox.org/
>>>
>>> There is a repo for Fedora, so you can install it with yum. It works great!
>>
>> you can never compare vbox and VMware, really you can not!
>> VMware-Images can be used/converted everywehre up to ESXi/vCenter
>>
>> http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/2011/05/14/running-vmware-workstation-player-on-linux-2-6-39-updated/
>> http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/vmware2.6.39patchv3.tar.bz2
>>
> 
> I installed 2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64 and tried to build VMware.  I ran into
> this error almost at once:
> 
>   CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
> /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:783:59: error:
> ‘SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED’ undeclared here (not in a function)
> 
> 
> It's caused by the following being removed from the file
> source/include/linux/spinlock_types.h:
> 
> /*
>  * SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED defeats lockdep state tracking and is hence
>  * deprecated.
>  * Please use DEFINE_SPINLOCK() or __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED() as
>  * appropriate.
>  */
> #define SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(old_style_spin_init)
> 
> Looks like a patch to the VMware source code should fix this issue. I
> can experiment with this if I can find the time.  There may be more
> "issues," however.

you qouted the URLs for a working patch from my post!

i have run VMware Workstation on 2.6.40 since sunday with
2 headless running server virtual machines which both do
hughe backup-jobs via cron and all is running fine

Host: Fedora 15 x86_64: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz
Guests: F14 x86_64 and F15 x86_64 both with two networks (nat + bridge)

On my workstation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
it does the job also as well with WinXP as long in grub.conf
"nmi_watchdog=0" is added to the kernel-params, but this
has nothing to do with 2.6.40 is is since upgrade to F15



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