Latest kernels and VMWare

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 20:59 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 7/15/06, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/15/06, Jim Bevier <jim at jbsys.com> wrote:
> > > The last couple of kernels (2396 & 2401) create a problem with the
> > > vmware-config.pl script.  It seems the 2.6.18 kernel mods have changed where
> > > the definition of "UTS_RELEASE" is stored.  It used to be in version.h, now
> > > it is in utsrelease.h.  Manually adding "#include utsrelase.h" to the
> > > version.h file gets me past this problem.  It caused vmware to not be able
> > > to find the proper kernel include files.  One I get past this problem vmmon
> > > build fine, but building vmnet aborts with "unknown symbol
> > > 'lockdep_init_map'".  I guess this is some new kernel thing.  Does anyone
> > > know how to get around this error?  I like to test vmware and ntfs for each
> > > new kernel release.
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > No easy way around this.....
> >
> > The new kernel adds a new 'CONFIG_LOCKDEP' option that appears to add
> > some stuff (GPL code, I think) that 'breaks' the VMWare vmmon.
> >
> > Here is a reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/4/247
> >
> > Looks like Petr (from VMWare) is working on it (I hope!).
> >
> > Until then, the last kernel that I've gotten VMWare working is
> > kernel-2.6.17-1.2339.fc6. Don't delete that one!
> >
> 
> I have not had a problem with vmware for a while after using the usual
> vmware-any-any.tar.gz [ http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ ]

Same here. Using the latest vmware-any-any.tar.gz patch on VMware
Workstation 5.5, the compiler flags a few warnings, but it compiles and
runs just fine.

I also just loaded VMware Server GA version on FC5 with the same kernel
update (2.6.17-1.2157). It compiles flawlessly out of the box with no
warnings at all (no patches required).

Cheers,

Chris

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