VMWare Workstation upgrade + Feisty

[Luis Mondesi]

On 4/30/07, Ed Smits <ed.smits at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you get to the office this morning, start up VMWare Workstation
> running on Feisty and are told about an upgrade being available (5.5.4
> build-44386 - the new ver 6 is still in beta, supposed to be released
> this summer) - go ahead and take it, but you'll need to do a minor
> fiddle to get it to compile and run successfully.
>
> 1) assuming you already had it running in Feisty before the upgrade
>          sudo to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
>          You'll see a few files called vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar as well
> as the old versions the upgrade replaced - vmmon.tar.old and
> vmnet.tar.old. Rename the new ones to something else, rename the old
> ones to vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar, run vmware-config.pl again, should be
> OK.
>
> 2) If this is the first time you are trying to get VMWare Workstation
> or server running with Feisty go to Chris Rose's web site and download
> the 2 patched tar files
>
> http://icanthack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/vmmon.tar
> http://icanthack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/vmnet.tar
>
> and place them in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source, overwriting the
> installed ones, run the config script afterwards.



And for those of you who are cautious (paranoid) and do not trust
downloading source from untrustworthy places, you might just do this:

untar vmmon.tar

gedit vmmon-only/include/compat_kernel.h

Then change the line:
static inline _syscall1(int, compat_exit, int, exit_code);

To read:
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 20)
static inline _syscall1(int, compat_exit, int, exit_code);
#endif

Tar everything back:
tar cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only

Done

Now you can simply run vmware-config.pl...

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Luis Mondesi
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