VMware Server : recently stopped working on Feisty

[Vincent Trouilliez]

Zach <uid000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I the various vmware kernel modules, including networking, would have
> to be recompiled after the recent kernel update.  However,
> vmware-config should have covered that, so If that's not it, i'm not
> sure.

Ohhh... looks like you are right... I think I found the problem...
the current kernel is 2.6.20-16, the matching modules for VMware Server
DO exist in the repo, HOWEVER there seems to be a dependency problem :
the "vmware-server-kernel-modules" package has not been updated and
still depends on the old 2.6.20-15 modules ! I am not an
expert with package management, so I don't know if there is a way to
force a package NOT to install one of its dependencies ! :-/

> FWIW, it's working on my updated system, but I didn't install it from synaptic.

Lucky you ! I tried again installing it manually, but it fails to
compile the vmmon module :-/

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Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD
SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic' CC
[M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o In file included
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:80: /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21:
error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before
‘compat_exit’ /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21:
error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before
‘exit_code’ /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21:
warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘_syscall1’ make[2]:
*** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 make[1]:
*** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving
directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic' make: ***
[vmmon.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory
`/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module.

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Vince, definitely out of luck...