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neilford

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Problem Installing into Ubuntu 8.04 RC Hardy Heron

I was running the install when this popped up. I am not sure what to do, at this point.

Thanks.

neilford

> 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]: *** Problem Installing into Ubuntu 8.04 RC Hardy Heron Error 2

> 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.

OnOffPT

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1. Apr 10, 2008 2:40 AM

in response to: neilford

Re: Problem Installing into Ubuntu 8.04 RC Hardy Heron

VMWare 6 and Ubuntu Hardy: vmmon compile error

Just a quick post to documentate how eitch got his VMWare config to work:

Problem: include/asm/bitops_32.h:9:2: error: #error only <linux/bitops.h> can be included directly, and vmmon-only compile failes

Solution: change line 74 in vmmon-only source file to read: #include “linux/bitops.h”

Steps:

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
cp vmmon.tar vmmon.tar.orig
sudo tar xvf vmmon.tar
cd vmmon-only/include/
sudo vi vcpuset.h
change line 74 from: #include “asm/bitops.h” to: #include “linux/bitops.h”
rm vmmon.tar (return to the folder where you decompressed the tar file)
sudo tar cvf vmmon.tar vmmon-only/
sudo rm -rf vmmon-only/
sudo vmware-config.pl

That’s it, the compile will work now and vmware should be usable as normal

eitch

source: http://eitchpress.eitchnet.ch/?p=13

All credits go to Eitch . Thanks.

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