VMware does not compile
oliver frommel
oliver at firstfloor.org
Sun Nov 14 10:04:32 UTC 2004
Hello,
yesterday I spent some time trying to compile the latest VMware
demo I just downloaded from the site. After some research I
came to the conclusion that it does not work with the Fedora 3
kernel.
During the linking stage of vmmon.o two symbols are missing
__copy_from_user_ll and __copy_to_user. As I am not too
familiar with the kbuild system I don't know exactly where
they come from, as they don't show up in the vmmmon-src.
linux/hostif.c is just using the plain functions copy_from_user()
and copy_to_user(). (I changed both functions to their
direct_.. counterparts, getting the same linker errors)
After downloading, extracting and preparing the fedora-kernel
srpm I found that (one of) the 4G/4G patches is removing
the EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_from_user).
Is this the cause for the errors?
Is there a way to make vmmon.o link without errors?
thanks for your help
Oliver
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