Problem compiling VMwareTools for ESX 3.5 on a recent kernel 2.6.30

[cronos6]

Hi

I'm running an old Ubuntu 6.10 on ESX 3.5. I had that bug : http://kb.vmware.com/kb/51306 and I decided to compile a new kernel for my old Ubuntu. Compilation of 2.6.32 went bad due to make-kpkg bug or so but finally 2.6.30 compiled OK. I've installed the .deb and rebooted : everything seems ok on this new kernel.
Unfortunatly, I can't install the Vmware tools (VMwareTools-3.5.0-123630.tar.gz) with this 2.6.30 kernel, got those errors :


Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmemctl-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30-custom/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/.
modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmemctl-only/backdoorGcc32.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmemctl-only/os.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmemctl-only/os.c:51:
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmemctl-only/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'
include/linux/poll.h:67: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was here/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmemctl-only/os.c: In function 'os_init':
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmemctl-only/os.c:590: error: 'struct proc_dir_entry' has no member named 'get_info'
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmemctl-only/os.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmemctl-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30'
make: *** [vmmemctl.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmemctl-only'
Unable to build the vmmemctl module.

The memory manager driver (vmmemctl module) is used by VMware host software to
efficiently reclaim memory from a virtual machine.
If the driver is not available, VMware host software may instead need to swap
guest memory to disk, which may reduce performance.
The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work
independently of this feature.
If you want the memory management feature, you can install the driver by
running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure that gcc, binutils, make
and the kernel sources for your running kernel are installed on your machine.
These packages are available on your distribution's installation CD.
[ Press Enter key to continue ]


Trying to find a suitable vmhgfs module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmhgfs modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmhgfs module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]

Extracting the sources of the vmhgfs module.

Building the vmhgfs module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmhgfs-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30-custom/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/.
modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmhgfs-only/backdoor.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmhgfs-only/backdoor.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmhgfs-only/backdoorGcc32.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmhgfs-only/bdhandler.o
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmhgfs-only/bdhandler.c:29:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmhgfs-only/request.h:35,
from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmhgfs-only/bdhandler.c:48:
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmhgfs-only/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'
include/linux/poll.h:67: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was heremake[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config3/vmhgfs-only/bdhandler.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmhgfs-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30'
make: *** [vmhgfs.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmhgfs-only'
Unable to build the vmhgfs module.

The filesystem driver (vmhgfs module) is used only for the shared folder
feature. The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work
independently of this feature.
If you wish to have the shared folders feature, you can install the driver by
running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure that gcc, binutils, make
and the kernel sources for your running kernel are installed on your machine.
These packages are available on your distribution's installation CD.
[ Press Enter key to continue ]


Well, that's a real mess. Anyone figure out how to compile the VmwareTools on Ubuntu 32bits 2.6.30 ? Thanks

[HermanAB]

The filesystem driver (vmhgfs module) is used only for the shared folder
feature. The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work
independently of this feature.

Disable the vmhgfs feature and compile again?

[cronos6]

Got errors with ALL modules, I've just pasted a part of output.