vmware 6.0 vmware-config fails with kernel 2.6.22.1

[CuZnDragon]

This is the error I am getting...

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.

make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only'

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22.1/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.22.1'

CC /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/driver.o

CC /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/hub.o

CC /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/userif.o

/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/userif.c: In function ‘VNetCopyDatagramToUser’:

/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/userif.c:630: error: ‘const struct sk_buff’ has no member named ‘h’

/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/userif.c:630: error: ‘const struct sk_buff’ has no member named ‘nh’

/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/userif.c:636: error: ‘const struct sk_buff’ has no member named ‘h’

make[2]: *** Error 1

make[1]: *** \[_module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.22.1'

make: *** \[vmnet.ko] Error 2

make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only'

Unable to build the vmnet module.

[BobCochran]

I downloaded your patch and that enabled my vmware build to succeed and then run on Fedora 7 as of this date.

I went ahead configured my first virtual machine using the prebuilt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 guest template. Then I installed a CentOS 5 guest in that virtual machine. Bridged mode networking seems to work just fine, I fully updated CentOS 5 to current patch levels.

Thanks very much for taking the time to post this patch!

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BobCochran

[Pavlinux]

Yet another patch.

Full migration to new "struct sk_buff", some likely/unlikely, IMHO a little speedup 😕

PATCH: http://linux.nextmail.ru/vmnet-only-2.6.22.sk_buff.patch.bz2

TAR: http://linux.nextmail.ru/vmnet.tar.bz2

[cf]

any-any-update112 is out, so all your custom patches are unnecessary now

[ken_lee]

What is the URL that I can download any-any-update112?

[ceskobassman]

Hi, i'm quite a newbie please help me use the patch on fc7

bye

[ceskobassman]

What is the URL that I can download any-any-update112?

here http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/

[ceskobassman]

I have just installed any-any-update112

and running vmplayer from the console this is the output:

"/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1: undefined symbol: g_regex_error_quark"

[ken_lee]

I'll try to return the favor. I just ran this on my FC7 system. Worked great.

run tar xvfz on the any-any-update... file. cd to the new directory. As root or sudo, run the runme.pl file. Answer the questions, the script compiles for you, done.

Thanks,

Ken

[Pavlinux]

any-any-update112 is out, so all your custom patches are unnecessary now

1. view +1161 bridge.c

ipHdrLen = compat_skb_ip_header(skb)->ihl << 2;

tcpHdrLen = compat_skb_tcp_header(skb)->doff << 2

Heh \!!! RTFM - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22

\[IP]: Introduce ip_hdrlen()

For the common sequence "skb->nh.iph->ihl * 4", removing a good number of open

coded skb->nh.iph uses, now to go after the rest...

Just out of curiosity, here are the idioms found to get the same result:

skb->nh.iph->ihl << 2
skb->nh.iph->ihl<<2
skb->nh.iph->ihl * 4
skb->nh.iph->ihl*4
(skb->nh.iph)->ihl * sizeof(u32)

[hersker]

I'm afraid I had no luck with any-any-update112. It didn't seem to recognize my Fedora 7 setup at all.

For example, I've accepted all the default directory locations when using vmware-install.pl, but any-any's runme.pl was wired to look for /etc/vmware[/b] rather than vmware-install.pl's default /etc/vmware-tools[/b].

When I edited runme.pl to point to /etc/vmware-tools I then got errors complaining it couldn't find the directories for several of the modules.

I gave up on getting vmware 6.0's tools to build with Fedora 7's updated kernel 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 and reverted to booting from my prior 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 kernel. VMware-tools builds and runs great with the older kernel.

In some of the postings above and in other threads, there has been push-back by VMware employees that Fedora Core is not a supported distribution. Paying customers (like myself) are naturally unhappy about this. Can someone from VMware explain (or post a link to) the rationale for not supporting a widely-used distribution like Fedora Core?

[KevinG]

I'm afraid I had no luck with any-any-update112. It didn't seem to recognize my Fedora 7 setup at all.

This is only for the host and not designed to be used in a Linux guest OS of a VM.

It's for allowing you to install VMware on newer kernels.

[RDPetruska]

>Can someone from VMware explain (or post a link to) the rationale for not supporting a widely-used distribution like Fedora Core?

Refer to earlier posts. Even Red Hat does NOT support FC! FC is meant as a bleeding-edge feature-testbed, to iron out bugs in new features/functions before they implement them into their RHEL Enterprise product. It is meant as a testing platform. It is NOT meant to be run as a production environment / primary host OS!!

[petr]

ipHdrLen = compat_skb_ip_header(skb)->ihl << 2;

tcpHdrLen = compat_skb_tcp_header(skb)->doff << 2

Heh \!!! RTFM -

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22

Thanks. I see tcp_hdrlen as well... Hm, maybe, sometime...

[mlt]

any-any-update112 works perfectly for me. I had severe problems running

WS6 on FC7 with Dual-Core Athlon 64-Bit before (kernel freeze).

Now everything seems to work perfectly.

mlt

[sillgen]

Thanks for the information posted here. I was able to get VMware server 1.0.2 to run on Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) with 2.6.22-7 kernel using the vmware-any-any-update113 patch.

Steve

[_saiko]

what about compiling the guest modules?

compiling modules on guest with 2.6.22 and vmware-tools-6.0.0. fails naturally ...

[hersker]

Thanks to KevinG for pointing out that any-any-update is for the host. I was trying to use it for a guest Fedora running under XP.

Since there was no solution that worked for me, I reverted to a version of the Fedora 7 kernel ( 2.6.21-1.3228) for which vmware-tools would build successfully. This gave me a working system for the last two months.

However today I upgraded to VMware Workstation 6.0.1 and also accepted Fedora's kernel updates, bringing the current kernel to 2.6.22.-91. I was hoping that 6.0.1's updated vmware-tools might work, or at least build, with the latest Fedora 7 kernel, but the vmhgfs module gets compile errors. So I have again reverted to kernel 2.6.21-1.3228 and successfully built the 6.0.1 vmware-tools against it.

I know Fedora is not officially supported, so the flamers out there can save themselves the effort of scolding me yet again. I am simply looking for anyone who might have patched vmware-tools 6.0.1 build-55017 to work with Fedora 7 kernel 2.6.22.-9.

Thanks,

-Steve