Anyone else have the issue of linux guests on 2.6.24 hosts having significant timekeeping issues (ie: issuing sleep 1 takes 10 seconds to complete)?

@Pavlinux --

Even with the patches you attached, I get the following:

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-7-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-7-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/./include/vmci_kernel_defs.h:26,
from /tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/./common/vmciContext.h:19,
from /tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:21,
from /tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:84:
/tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:37:5: warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:43:5: warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/./include/vmci_kernel_defs.h:26,
from /tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/./common/vmciContext.h:19,
from /tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:21,
from /tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:84:
/tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
/tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:198: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** _module_/tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-7-generic'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

...Ken

I *do not *use kernel from any distributives!!!

My first step after installation any distrib is a:

wget -c http://kernel.org ...blah-blah.....linux-2.6.24.2.tar.bz2 && tar xvf linux-2.6.24.2.tar.bz && cd linux-2.6.24.2 && make menuconfig && make && make modules_install && make install && init 6;

Ok, the vmware-any-any-update115a works though.

Hai....

My Name is NAVEEN...i am final year student.....dude..i also using
the same VMware version which u r using...for the linux...but the thing
is i am USING EVALUATION VERSION ( 30 day trail version ) ...now i want
a serial number for that to register..so plz kindly provide me the
serial number for that or atleast help me out from this situation....by
giving some web addresses wherer i wil get the serial for that.....

And My MAIL ID IS : justme_naveenkumar@yahoo.com

Thanks in Advance

You need to buy one. There are no "free" serial numbers.

Hi -- I'm running Fedora 8 PAE (kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8PAE). I've installed VMware-workstation-6.0.2-59824 from the tarball and applied vmware-any-any-update115a. The patch issued the following messages:

# ./runme.pl
Updating /usr/bin/vmware ... No patch needed/available
Updating /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge ... No patch needed/available
Updating /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx ... No patch needed/available
Updating /usr/lib/vmware/bin-debug/vmware-vmx ... No patch needed/available
VMware modules in "/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source" has been updated.

When I run vmware-config.pl, I get the same errors in vmmon:

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.24.3-12.fc8-PAE-i686'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/./include/vmci_kernel_defs.h:26,
from /tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/./common/vmciContext.h:19,
from /tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:21,
from /tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:84:
/tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:37:5: warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:43:5: warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/./include/vmci_kernel_defs.h:26,
from /tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/./common/vmciContext.h:19,
from /tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:21,
from /tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:84:
/tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
/tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:198: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

First question: was the output from applying update115a correct?

Second question: anyone have a suggestion about fixing the type conflict error?