[ubuntu] AARGH... VMWare Server Issues!

[shaunfink]

Hey all!

I'm fairly new to the Linux OS.. When I started playing around with it i started off with Mandriva, then to Fedora and now i'm using Ubuntu. Currently I have 8.10 installed and i'm having an issue with VMWARE Server!

The installation works all fine and well but once i run vmware-config.pl I get to a stage where i'm building the vmmon module. This is where I get errors. Here's the output that i get:

Building the vmmon module. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic' CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/machine.h:24, from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:15, from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49: /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/x86.h:830:1: warning: "PTE_PFN_MASK" redefined In file included from include/asm/paravirt.h:7, from include/asm/irqflags.h:55, from include/linux/irqflags.h:57, from include/asm/system.h:11, from include/asm/processor.h:17, from include/linux/prefetch.h:14, from include/linux/list.h:6, from include/linux/module.h:9, from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:12: include/asm/page.h:22:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/vmhost.h:13, from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:71: /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_semaphore.h:5:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:146: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:147: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:150: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:151: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’: /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1670: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’ make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic' make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and "http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html". Execution aborted.

Any ideas as to what the problem is and how I can fix this?

Cheers

[starclouded]

Hi, this solved my problem>

wget -c http://www.insecure.ws/warehouse/vmw...5.5.7-2.tar.gz

tar -xzvf vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz && cd vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2 && sudo perl runme.pl

enjoy sorry for my english http://ubuntuforums.org/images/icons/icon11.gif

[zabaksmers17]

Thanks, this solved my problem also!

[scott.nightingale]

brilliant, thank you!