Have been searching around the net and finally hit the jackpot. Thx a lot for this. Worked like a charm.

Really needed to get the 2.6.30 kernel working with everything.

/Kenneth

I had some problems with this too, but it was down to the fact that I had installed vmware into /usr/local and not plain /usr.

Anyway, here's what I did if it helps.

cd /usr/src

mkdir vmware-patches

cd vmware-patches

wget http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/1285430-24470/vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30-fix.sh

wget http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/1285430-24471/vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30-fix.patch

chmod 700 vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30-fix.sh

cp /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/source/*.tar .

./vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30-fix.sh

Seri

This patch works fine with the 32-bit version. Source code is not generally that tuned towards being 32bit vs. 64-bit.

Anyways, I've tested the patch on my 32-bit VMware Server 2.0.1 build-156745 and it works fine.

There is, however, one problem. Whenever my machine restarts, VMWare refuses to load. It's somehow able to

detect that the driver it's running have been modified in some way and refuses to load them. If I run vmware-config

again it instructs me to delete the vmmon, vmnet and vmacpi drivers as they were not built by vmware-config

(Even though they were...)

Does anyone have any ideas what the fix for this would be?

HI,

I installed a slack 12.2.

I upgraded to the kernel 2.6.30

I  downloaded VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.i386.tar.gz and the two files (.patch and .sh)

I run the .sh . All is fine

Now I run the  vmware-install.pl

When the program try to  build the vmmon module I have the same error as before the patch.

Why ?

The error is

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.

make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30'

  CC Re: Here is patch for 2.6.30 kernel for VMware Server 2.0.1 build-156745 x_64  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o

In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:31:

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'

include/linux/poll.h:67: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was here

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriverSyncCallOnEachCPU':

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1423: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriver_Ioctl':

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'euid'

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1987: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1988: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'uid'

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'egid'

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1989: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1990: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'gid'

/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'

make[2]: *** /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o Error 1

make[1]: *** Re: Here is patch for 2.6.30 kernel for VMware Server 2.0.1 build-156745 x_64 Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30'

make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2

make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/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/go/unsup-linux-products" and

"http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-tools".

Execution aborted.

Thx