From: Jim Cunning <jcunning@cunning.ods.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] How to build vmware-modules for kernel 2.6.30
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:28:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910201329.06180.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0910200715k1ab3301fq976cccd6f591c053@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 20 October 2009 07:15:45 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Jim Cunning <jcunning@cunning.ods.org>
wrote:
[...]
> > vmware-workstation-5.5.9 seems to require *only* vmware-modules-1.0.0.15.
> > Is there a way I can change this and rebuild both vmware and its kernel
> > modules?
>
> You could perhaps emerge the newer modules with --nodeps and see if it
> works. You might have to put the old vmware-modules package into
> package.provided so emerge doesn't complain about it.
This worked so far as to get the modules built and loaded. Then vmware 5.5.9
complained about mismatched interface version numbers.
> There are patches to supposedly make it work (it requires patching
> your kernel as well as your vmware-module sources):
> http://www.insecure.ws/2009/04/21/vmware-specific-specific-55x-and-kernel-2
> 629
More involved than I want to undertake, and also would require repeating each
time the kernel were updated.
> Other possible actions would be to go back to older kernel or upgrade
> to newer vmware-workstation. :)
I bit the bullet and upgraded to vmware-workstation-6.5.3. Much easier. It
just drops in and works.
--
Jim
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2009-10-20 5:21 [gentoo-user] How to build vmware-modules for kernel 2.6.30 Jim Cunning
2009-10-20 14:15 ` Paul Hartman
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