vmware under hoary

[Benjamin Haubeck]

i send a reply yesterday but only to the sender of the solution by mistake:

here is the one for the list:

the wrong symlink was the evil!
thanks to jess little vmware is now working on my ubuntu-notebook.

thanks for your answers.

be

Jess Little wrote:
> it looks like your linux symlink is pointing at the wrong directory.  try this:
> 
> cd /usr/src
> sudo rm linux
> sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.10-2-386 ./linux
> 
> that should give you a line in your ls output that looks somethng like this:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root src    12 2005-01-29 23:30 linux ->
> linux-headers-2.6.10-2-386
> 
> then tell the vmware installer that your sources are in /usr/src/linux
> (which is the default).  should work from there.
> 
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 20:52:29 +0100, Benjamin Haubeck <bhaubeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>hello,
>>
>>thanks for your help.
>>
>>i did not build my own kernel in this ubuntu-notebook.
>>i just get it with apt-get dist-upgrade
>>and i installed after the dist-upgrade the sources
>>and i thought that they are suitable, but it seems that vmware does
>>not agree with me.
>>
>>can you help me with it?
>>
>>ben
>>
>>On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:47:56 -0500, Tichondrius
>><ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>>
>>>Is your kernel built from the sources you have installed ?  If not, you
>>>need to build a kernel from these sources, and then it should work
>>>fine. Like the error message tells you:
>>>"There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration
>>>between the
>>>set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. *You may
>>>want to
>>>rebuild a kernel based on that directory*"
>>>
>>>BTW, in hoary amd64, the compile of vmmon kernel module fails, even
>>>though the source is supposed to support compilation under 64 bit mode.
>>>But I think some of the 64 bit macros used don't match the amd64 env.
>>>I'd really love to have vmware working under 64-bit host OS (like it
>>>claims to support), so I can start a 32-bit OS in a VM whenever I need
>>>to run 32 bit kernel stuff.  Did anyone get it to work ?
>>>
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