I just upgraded my Ubuntu 7.10 computer to 8.04 beta. vmware insisted that I run vmware-configure.pl. When I ran it I got this familiar error:
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.24-12-generic/build/include]
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/2.6.24-12-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-12-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/comport.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
In file included from include/asm/bitops.h:2,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vcpuset.h:74,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/modulecall.h:23,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.h:18,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/hostif.h:18,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.c:14:
include/asm/bitops_32.h:9:2: error: #error only <linux/bitops.h> can be included directly
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o] Error 1
make[1]: ***
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-12-generic'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.
For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".
Execution aborted.
Does anyone know if/when/how it's possible to get around this?
