Hi All,
Today I installed OpenSUSE11.4 an tried to install VMware Player but after starting player is wanted to compile and I got the messages below:
Mar 10 22:47:18.350: app-139681465902848| Log for VMware Workstation pid=12510 version=7.1.3 build=build-324285 option=Release
Mar 10 22:47:18.350: app-139681465902848| The process is 64-bit.
Mar 10 22:47:18.350: app-139681465902848| Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
Mar 10 22:47:18.350: app-139681465902848| Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-12510.log
Mar 10 22:47:18.528: app-139681465902848| System distribution is SuSE
Mar 10 22:47:18.528: app-139681465902848| System version is 11.4
Mar 10 22:47:18.528: app-139681465902848| modconf query interface initialized
Mar 10 22:47:18.529: app-139681465902848| modconf library initialized
Mar 10 22:47:18.563: app-139681465902848| Your GCC version: 4.5
Mar 10 22:47:18.569: app-139681465902848| Your GCC version: 4.5
Mar 10 22:47:18.581: app-139681465902848| Your GCC version: 4.5
Mar 10 22:47:18.596: app-139681465902848| Your GCC version: 4.5
Mar 10 22:47:18.608: app-139681465902848| Your GCC version: 4.5
Mar 10 22:47:18.653: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.656: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.658: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.661: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.663: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.685: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.688: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.690: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.693: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.695: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.700: app-139681465902848| Your GCC version: 4.5
Mar 10 22:47:18.712: app-139681465902848| Your GCC version: 4.5
Mar 10 22:47:18.750: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.752: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.755: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.757: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.760: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.764: app-139681465902848| Your GCC version: 4.5
Mar 10 22:47:18.777: app-139681465902848| Your GCC version: 4.5
Mar 10 22:47:18.832: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.834: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.837: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.839: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.842: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.973: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:47:18.975: app-139681465902848| Can't get required utilities make, tar, echo, grep, rmmod, insmod
Mar 10 22:47:18.975: app-139681465902848| Could not prepare build system.
Mar 10 22:50:51.662: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:50:51.665: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:50:51.667: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:50:51.670: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:50:51.673: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:50:51.678: app-139681465902848| Your GCC version: 4.5
Mar 10 22:50:51.690: app-139681465902848| Your GCC version: 4.5
Mar 10 22:50:51.747: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:50:51.750: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:50:51.753: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:50:51.755: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Mar 10 22:50:51.758: app-139681465902848| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop.
Can anyone help me?
Hi All,
finally solved for OpenSUSE 11.6 x64, used the following with some changes
http://linux.ioda.net/openSUSE/patch-modules_v62-opensuse.sh
Change this script line 4 to:
fpatch=vmware-7.1.3-2.6.37-9-generic.patch
to use the following file(unzipped):
And working 🙂
Thanks for your help!
Brian
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1652300
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1685936
Hi! (First of all, sorry for my ugly english).
Well, I have the same problem. (I'm very happy with my new OpenSUSE 11.4 x86_64 on Dell E6410, but.... wmplayer don't work )
I read the following links about this topic.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1703774
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/293321?start=0&tstart=0
And I tried to apply this patch ( I'm not sure how to do it, but I followed some steps from this link ( http://www.linuxinsight.com/vmware-workstation-7.1.3-runs-great-on-linux-kernel-2.6.37.html )
Painfully, don't worked in my case, but i don't know if the patch is bad or I gave some step on the wrong way.
I really appreciate that somebody, that can do it to work please tell us "how to " (for dummies )
Best Regards
Alejandro
I've edditted my comment, please Check above
Hi! (First of all, sorry for my ugly english....)
I'm very happy to announce that finally worked!
Many thanks for your comments and scripts
Just wanted to say a comment.
I do not know why, but the archives of the modules vmnet.tar and vmci.tar has another file structure than the rest.
Try to be clearer ...
vmblock.tar (unzip) -> path / folder / vmblock-only
vmmon.tar (unzip) -> path / folder / vmmon-only
vsock.tar (unzip) -> path / folder / vsock-only
But
vmci.tar (unzip) -> path / folder / tmp / vmci-only
vmnet.tar (unzip) -> path / folder / tmp / vmnet-only
And this difference makes the script gives an error when running the patch, since it can not find what file to patch.
My suggestion is that in another directory unzip the vmci.tar and vmnet.tar and later re-compress, BUT WITHOUT THE FOLDER TMP.
Hope it helps someone else ...
Regards
Alejandro
VMware Player 3.1.4 resolves this issues.
I succesfully installed and run in OpenSuSE 11.4 x86_64.
Bye
Paolo