[solved] Vmware with 2.6.16

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nik1982 · Post by **nik1982** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:39 pm

With the newest version in Portage i get an error like:

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same
address space size as your running kernel.

when building the kernel modules for vmware via "vmware-config.pl". I made
an symboli link from /usr/src/linux to the directory where the kernel which is
running is. Any Idea?

Nik

UgolinoII · Post by **UgolinoII** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:09 pm

confirm the runing kernel is what you think it is with uname -a

nik1982 · Post by **nik1982** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:35 am

Yes uname -a gives me the right answer... 2.6.16-ck1

PaulSorensen · Post by **PaulSorensen** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:14 am

So take a look at the file "/usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h"

Is there a line that says the following?

#define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.16-ck1"

If not then the running kernel doesn't seem to be the one that was built from this source.

nik1982 · Post by **nik1982** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:44 pm

Is version.h really supposed to be in "/usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h" . Because i have no such file in there.. wheter in 2.6.16 nor in the working 2.6.15.

Nik

nik1982 · Post by **nik1982** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:33 pm

Oki solved that problem. Take a look at:
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread. ... 49&#371849

and grab the patch at:
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-an ... e98.tar.gz

And things are working again. Has to do something with new user/kernel memory split from either of 1gig/3gig, 2/2, 3/1 in 2.6.16.
Nik[/url]

Kalin · Post by **Kalin** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:26 am

Please consider using my PORTDIR_OVERLAY, see [1] for info.

I have just updated it to use any-any-update99 and tested it on linux-2.6.16 on x86.

Look under app-emulation/ for vmware-workstation{,-modules}. Splitting the ebuild was an idea I got from a friend of mine.

[1] http://rsync.tar.bz/

spiralvoice · Post by **spiralvoice** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:09 am

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127728

Kalin · Post by **Kalin** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:33 pm

Well, well.. I think all was said in bug 127728 ... But I feel the need to repost it here as I completely agree with jakub

------- Comment #1 From Jakub Moc 2006-03-27 03:13 PST [reply] -------

This type of bug reports is completely useless. If you have nothing to say
besides a link to forums, then please don't file a bug at all. Bugzilla is used
as a bug-tracking databases and has a sophisticated search features, very
useful for finding duplicates (which you apparently didn't use, otherwise you'd
find Bug 127023 and Bug 127661).

How do you expect that anyone will find anything useful in this bug?

Marking INVALID, refer to the above mentioned bugs.

NEVER post an empty bug with just a link to the forums!

spiralvoice · Post by **spiralvoice** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:21 pm

Kalin wrote:NEVER post an empty bug with just a link to the forums!

Sorry

agent_jdh · Post by **agent_jdh** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:44 pm

To get vmware running on 2.6.16 here I had to mod the ebuild to apply a patch from Torbjorn Svensson in bugzilla.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127023#c6

Also update to any-any-99 and it seems to work fine here.

xcable · Post by **xcable** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:19 pm

The current portage tree apears to have this patch under "testing". I've tested it with ~amd64 and it works fine.

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[solved] Vmware with 2.6.16

[solved] Vmware with 2.6.16

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