vmware modules patch for kernel 2.6.39 - CONFIG_BKL

mole · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 81

Had to upgrade the kernel for wireless hardware support, and find VMWare is broken with 2.6.39.. (seems familiar)

OK, I've been Googling around and have found the Gentoo bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368139, the patches http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/2011/05/14/running-vmware-workstation-player-on-linux-2-6-39-updated/ and various instructions.

I've patched VMWare from source before, but really want to stick with an emerge this time.

I'm sure it's really obvious from the bug report (to people who are more familiar with patching) , but precisely how do I apply these patches? I can find source in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source, only a couple of months old, so it shouldn't be from the old vmware-server installation....

I'm trying (in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source) :

edward source # patch -p1 < /home/edward/Downloads/vmware2.6.39fixed.patch
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|diff -u -r source-original/vmblock-only/linux/dentry.c source/vmblock-only/linux/dentry.c
|--- source-original/vmblock-only/linux/dentry.c 2011-03-26 04:03:06.000000000 +0100
|+++ source/vmblock-only/linux/dentry.c 2011-05-14 19:05:49.000000000 +0200
--------------------------
File to patch: ^C

edward source # updatedb
edward source # locate vmblock-only
edward source #
edward source # locate dentry.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.29/fs/9p/vfs_dentry.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.29/fs/ecryptfs/dentry.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.29/fs/gfs2/ops_dentry.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.29/fs/hpfs/dentry.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.39/fs/9p/vfs_dentry.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.39/fs/ecryptfs/dentry.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.39/fs/gfs2/dentry.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.39/fs/hpfs/dentry.c

Thanks in advance.

mole · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 81

Just downgraded the kernel back to 2.6.38.7, which has CONFIG_BKL, and also has the wireless drivers.

Will leave it alone until I'm forced to upgrade again.....

Yamakuzure · Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 9:46 am Post subject:

I have added the ebuild plus patch to my overlay at http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=user/seden.git (available via layman -a seden) and am currently updating to 2.6.39 to test the ebuild and the patch.
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Yamakuzure · Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 11:51 am Post subject:

I have now tested the ebuild, and my VMs are now up and running with gentoo-sources-2.6.39.
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xmaes · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2008 Posts: 69 Location: Madrid

thank you works fine on my pc.

zerros · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2010 Posts: 179

Thanks for this topic, but I don't have any /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
I am a beginner on gentoo.

if i try to setup vmware-modules, it fails with CONFIG_BKL: is not set when it should be.

How can I apply this patch if I don't have the source of vmware-modules ?

thanks in advance for your help.
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someone12345 · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 365

Works.

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coolone · Apprentice Joined: 14 Nov 2006 Posts: 278

has anyone tried 3D support?
my 3D doesnt work.

mks| GLUtil_InstallExtensionLists: Missing extension GL_ARB_vertex_blend
mks| GLUtil_InstallExtensionLists: Missing extension
GL_ARB_vertex_shader_texture_lod
mks| GLUtil_InstallExtensionLists: Missing extension
GL_ATI_vertex_shader_texture_lod
mks| GLUtil_InstallExtensionLists: Missing extension GL_APPLE_fence
mks| GLUtil_InstallExtensionLists: Missing extension
GL_APPLE_flush_buffer_range
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mole · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 81

OK, had been running a patched 2.6.29 with VMWare server 1 OK, but udev upgrade forced me to a newer kernel.

No vmware-server in portage so used the vmware overlay - but emerging vmware modules then fails for both 3.3.4-gentoo and 2.6.38.7 kernels, and hit a bug that's been around since January this year (no action taken yet).

the seden overlay doesn't have vmware (as mentioned before), but there is a go-vmware overlay referred to at :

http://www.disconnected-by-peer.at/index.php?blog=5

with instructions on how to install at : http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VMware_Server

which give the command : layman --overlays=http://ftp.disconnected-by-peer.at/pub/overlay/geos_one-overlay.xml --add=go-vmware

which then fails with "Exception: Overlay "go-vmware" does not exist". Also fails if I change go-vmware to go-virtualisation (the xml file contains go-virtualisation but not go-vmware so thought I'd try it)

Can't find anything relevant in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml, so stumped for now.

Is anyone using this overlay, or could give any advice how to add it? Looks like it has Server version 1 patched right up to kernel 3.1, which would be ideal....

mole · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 81

Compiling from source isn't going too well either :

applied patch from http://www.disconnected-by-peer.at/index.php?blog=5 - for kernel 3.1

Modified vmware-config.pl to make $header_version_uts always match $gSystem{'uts_release'} to stop vmware complaining of mismatch

Symlinked /usr/src/linux/include/generated/autoconf.h to /usr/src/linux/include/autoconf.h so vmware-config could find it.

Now vmware-config.pl fails with :

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.c: In function 'VNetCsumCopyDatagram':
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.c:565:3: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of 'kmap'
/usr/src/linux-3.3.4-gentoo/arch/x86/include/asm/highmem.h:60:7: note: expected 'struct page *' but argument is of type 'const struct <anonymous>'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.c:568:3: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of 'kunmap'
/usr/src/linux-3.3.4-gentoo/arch/x86/include/asm/highmem.h:61:6: note: expected 'struct page *' but argument is of type 'const struct <anonymous>'

I am trying 3.3.4 but wouldn't have thought much has changed from 3.1 ?

mole · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 81

Working with VMWare server version 1.0.10 build 203137 installed from source, using the Mario patch, kernel 2.6.38.7, vmware-config.pl modified and symlink to autoconf.h as last post.

Will try and get the go-vmware overlay (if it still exists) later...