I'm trying to get a version of SourceForge going on FC6. It comes with VMPlayer etc as part of the distribution. As I progress with the installation using their installation...
vmware-install.pl
I eventually get to the part where it runs the ever famous:
vmplayer-config.pl
I see the following file
VMware-player-1.0.3-34682.tar.gz[/i]
So I assume it is trying to configure 1.0.3 of the player
Details of the configuration run follow... with questions at bottom
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None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Player is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? \[yes]
Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel?
Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
Building the vmmon module.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only'
make -C /usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6-i686/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6-i686'
CC /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/hash.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/task.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/vmcore/moduleloop.o
LD /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/vmmon.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o
LD /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6-i686'
cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only'
Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon.o': -1 Invalid module format
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.
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\[medusa]# uname -r
2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6
\[medusa]# ls /usr/src/kernels/
2.6.19-1.2895.fc6-i686 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6-PAE-i686
2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6-i686 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6PAE-i686
2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6-kdump-i686 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6-xen-i686
2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6kdump-i686 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6xen-i686
\[medusa]# ls /usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6-i686/
arch fs kabi_whitelist mm security
block include kernel Module.symvers sound
crypto init lib net symsets-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6.tar.gz
drivers ipc Makefile scripts usr
\[medusa]# rpm -q kernel-devel
kernel-devel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6
kernel-devel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6
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I've never done any builds requiring the kernel headers etc... or at least not knowingly
Near as I can tell, I've pointed the configuration at what I believe is the correct directory, but i'm not sure... It appears to have built the module, but I gather there is some incompatability with this module and the running kernel.... HELP!
