From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N0LKR-0000Xj-5R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:29:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3DD2E07C7; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:29:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jlc64.cunning.ods.org (wsip-98-175-241-89.sd.sd.cox.net [98.175.241.89]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5351E07C7 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:29:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jlc64.localnet (jlc64.cunning.ods.org [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jlc64.cunning.ods.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 30F4E35AA2B for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:29:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Cunning 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <200910192221.26905.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> <58965d8a0910200715k1ab3301fq976cccd6f591c053@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0910200715k1ab3301fq976cccd6f591c053@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1648360.k2SxqiCpkX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910201329.06180.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> X-Archives-Salt: ece9160b-c2c0-4435-b7c0-44922502c023 X-Archives-Hash: de445d5844b98ad4e701e08b12f8d5ac --nextPart1648360.k2SxqiCpkX Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday 20 October 2009 07:15:45 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Jim Cunning = =20 wrote: [...] > > vmware-workstation-5.5.9 seems to require *only* vmware-modules-1.0.0.1= 5. > > Is there a way I can change this and rebuild both vmware and its kernel > > modules? >=20 > 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= =2E9=20 complained about mismatched interface version numbers. =20 > 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= =2D2 > 629 More involved than I want to undertake, and also would require repeating ea= ch=20 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. I= t=20 just drops in and works. =2D-=20 Jim --nextPart1648360.k2SxqiCpkX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkreHZIACgkQUNDOODpQvpLCGgCfd4QYDEHptqBaKwY1njVhW2Bd TvUAn2IBFAW/EvbfIYT+jFijLoSuDmsa =qr01 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1648360.k2SxqiCpkX--