vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz
Refresh vmblock & vmnet.
Fix build on 2.6.24-rc2,3. 2.6.24-rc1 is not supported, please upgrade.

I'm using Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.24-1-686. Just did the following and successfully compiled:

• replaced asm/bitops by linux/bitops in vmmon
• ran the command: m-a --not-unpack --force --text-mode --userdir /l/down/vmware-any-any build vmware-any-any-kernel-source

The --not-unpack clause is needed so module-assistant does not overwrite the patched file.

The error appears a little different this time ...

CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/task.o
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wstrict-prototypes" is valid for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Werror-implicit-function-declaration" is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wdeclaration-after-statement" is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wno-pointer-sign" is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wstrict-prototypes" is valid for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-ffreestanding" is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
include/asm/page.h: In function 'pte_t native_make_pte(pteval_t)':
include/asm/page.h:128: error: expected primary-expression before ')' token
include/asm/page.h:128: error: expected ';' before '{' token
include/asm/page.h:128: error: expected primary-expression before '.' token
include/asm/page.h:128: error: expected `;' before '}' token
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/task.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** _module_/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.25'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

Execution aborted.

Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the response. Is it possible you could make your vmblock.tar, vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar files available?

Email or posted some where so that I could check them out?

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/vmware.h:25,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:48:

my config:

Linux aphrodite 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
VMware Workstation 6.0.0 build-45731

tried with vmware-any-any-update115a.tgz 01-Dec-2007 ( http://rtr.ca/vmware-2.6.24/ )

then vmware started, but starting a vm guest system: Version mismatch with vmmon module, expecting 161.0, got 167.0.

... Try restinalling VMware Workstation ...

Then, kernel 2.6.24.x has a separate solution, I used the source from http://rtr.ca/vmware-2.6.24/, the file 115a any-any update.

Now, this solution may fix 2.6.24.x as well as 2.6.25. I finally just signed up for and downloaded VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2, unpacked it, extracted the module source and used those. They compiled perfectly.

Good luck!