Re: Vmware Workstation won't compile

[Christopher A Williams]

On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 06:42 -0400, Mark C. Allman wrote: 
>  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(a)risingstarmbc.com&gt; 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-workstat...
>  >
> http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/vmware2...
>  > 
>  
>  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.
>   
Nice find! I would suggest that we send this information to VMware
Support. Since Fedora is now considered a supported Linux distribution
for VMware Workstation (and vSphere as well), this should definitely be
of interest to them.

I can check with my VMware contacts to see where this should go to get
the quickest visibility and response.

Cheers,

Chris Williams
(VCAP4-DCD, VCAP4-DCA)

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