Comments on: How-to Install VMware Player / Workstation on 2.6.25 Kernel

By: dumb linux user

dumb linux user — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:38:59 +0000

Hi,

well after using it to patch FC9 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 succesfully I found myself today with a new kernal version 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 in FEDORA 9. I looked if there was a more modern patch available and installed it. The vmware-any-any-update117d.tar.gz but if gave me an error message of

“Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 169.0, got 168.0″.

So I went back to this patch vmware-any-any-update-117-very-ALPHA.tgz and followed the instruction on this page and )) happy vmware is working again. THANKS!!

Hope this might be helpfull. So this also works for 2.6.26 kernel!!
Take care

By: Sal

Sal — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:48:51 +0000

Thank you soooo much! I’ve been struggling to get this installed for weeks.

By: Bogô

Bogô — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:58:56 +0000

Hi,

I had the same problem with my vmware, i followed your instructions and didn’t workout for me.
I could install vmware and run it.
The only way to compile in this kernel is using any any 116.
But when i start the vm i got the message “vmware expecting 161.0, got 167.0″.
I’m using Debian Lenny Beta 2 Kernel 2.6.24-1 and vmware 6.0.0 45731.
I extracted vmmon-only.tar from any any 116, and changed this 2 files:
vmmon-only/include/iocontrols_compat.h (Line 18)
vmmon-only/include/iocontrols.h (Line 48)
167 to 161 and it workout.
A re-run vmware-config.pl

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By: foxi

foxi — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:37:40 +0000

quote:
Hey, just wanted to let you know – I actually had bad workstation tarball. Re-synced it from backup, reinstalled, patched 116 with 117 and in the end all worked fine – 5.5 builds on Fedora’s 2.6.25 kernel. Checked the server 1.0.5, no problems either.

That’s what I’m trying to do: Workstation 5.5 on kernel 2.6.25. It doesn’t work.
I cannot apply the patch 117, because there are no patches in the directory.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:22:29 +0000

oops, typo, of course the last line of my comment above should be
“but that is incorrect, installed is also gcc 4.3.1.”
(not 2.3.1)

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:58:25 +0000

Works perfectly on an OpenSuSe 11 (i386), after upgrade from OpenSuSe 10.3. The vmware installation was the original one as on OpenSuSE 10.3, where the appropriate any-any patch was installed earlier. After the upgrade it was only needed to apply the vmware-any-any-update-117-very-ALPHA patch as offered here above.
The vmware-config.pl script complained:

‘Your kernel was built with “gcc” version “4.3.1″, while you are trying to use “/usr/bin/gcc” version “4.3″.’

but that is incorrect, installed is also gcc 2.3.1. Dunno why vmware doesn’t get it. Just ignore the warning and compile anyway.

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By: Jens Kuehnel

Jens Kuehnel — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:24:50 +0000

The file is vmmon-only/include/iocontros.h and vmmon-only/include/iocontros_compat.h.

By: Jens Kuehnel

Jens Kuehnel — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:22:38 +0000

Hi,

work great on VMwareWorkstation-6.0.4-93057 and Fedora 8 with kernel 2.6.25.11-60.fc8. But you have to change the VMMON_VERSION from 167 to 168.

other than that I works great. Thanks a lot!

Greeting from Germany
Jens

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