Ehud, your patches help, but fail for latest Fedora kernel: 2.6.25-0.69.rc3.git1.fc9

Here is what I get:

<<<<< SNIP >>>>>>
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/vmciResource.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/vmciSharedMem.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/vmcore/compat.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/vmcore/moduleloop.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/vmmon.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: "init_mm" [/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko] undefined!
CC /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.25-0.69.rc3.git1.fc9-i686'
cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only'
Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon.o': -1 Unknown symbol in module
There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration between the
set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may want to
rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory.

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.

/var/log/messages complains:

vmmon: Unknown symbol init_mm
vmmon: Unknown symbol init_mm

This is what blocked me before. Any help gratefully appreciated!

tom

Thanks for this. Here is what is installed on my system:

kernel-headers-2.6.25-0.69.rc3.git1.fc9.i386
kernel-devel-2.6.25-0.69.rc3.git1.fc9.i686
and
kernel-2.6.25-0.69.rc3.git1.fc9.i686

So I don't believe I have a mismatch problem, nor do I believe the script picked to wrong directory.

Fedora is usually quite up to date on their trees, so I suspect it is as described by nv: init_mm is no longer exported in x86 kernels.

I've had good success building to Fedora's packages up until 2.6.25-XX packages.

I'm guessing that the kernel guys have chosen NOT to export this, but I'll post on the fedora site to see.

tom

#include <linux/sched.h>
struct mm_struct init_mm;

This, along with the changes for vmnet allows the beast to compile and load:

Feb 28 11:11:57 localhost kernel: 13711: VMCI: Driver initialized.
Feb 28 11:11:57 localhost kernel: 13711: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165
Feb 28 11:11:57 localhost kernel: 13711: Module vmmon: initialized
Feb 28 11:11:58 localhost kernel: /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 13749 (vmnet-bridge)
Feb 28 11:11:58 localhost kernel: /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
Feb 28 11:11:58 localhost kernel: /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
Feb 28 11:11:58 localhost kernel: bridge-eth1: peer interface eth1 not found, will wait for it to come up
Feb 28 11:11:58 localhost kernel: bridge-eth1: attached
Feb 28 11:11:58 localhost kernel: /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 13768 (vmnet-netifup)
Feb 28 11:11:58 localhost kernel: /dev/vmnet: hub 1 does not exist, allocating memory.
Feb 28 11:11:58 localhost kernel: /dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
<<<<SNIP>>>>
Feb 28 11:11:58 localhost vmnet-dhcpd:
Feb 28 11:11:58 localhost vmnet-detect13755: NetDetectDaemonInit: No host policy file found. Not initializing filter.

"vmware" starts, but trying to power on a guest produces the following popup:

Unable to change virtual machine power state: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to.

So, I'm back to square one or two.

Any ideas?

tom