[Grml] vmware server 1.0.3 on grml 1.0

[Lars Schimmer]

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Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Lars Schimmer <l.schimmer at cgv.tugraz.at> [20070726 15:15]:
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>> Has anyone managed to compile and run the vmware 1.0.3 server (with
>> any-any-112 patch) on grml 1.0 with kernel 2.6.20 ?
>> At my HD install it wonŽt compile the kernel module :-(
> 
> ,---- [ .../vmware-any-any-update112/runme.pl ]
> | make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-grml'
> | cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o
> | make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
> | The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.
> | [...]
> | make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-grml'
> | cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o
> | make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only'
> | The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.
> | [...]
> | The configuration of VMware Server 1.0.3 build-44356 for Linux for
> | this running kernel completed successfully.
> `----
> 
> I'm using
> http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update112.tar.gz
> (md5sum fc25f970aa2797938b54f3d2a7ec2d73) with
> VMware-server-1.0.3-44356.tar.gz and 2.6.22-grml (the one from the
> grml-testing repository). I would wunder myself if that shouldn't
> work with 2.6.20. Are you using 2.6.20-grml? If so: which errors do
> you get after applying vmware-any-any-update112.tar.gz?

Oky, go back to start, retry it.
The trick is, not to configure via install the server... Just install
it, on the question about configure say no, run the any-any update and
configure in this...
Now it compiles ;-)

> regards,
> -mika-


MfG,
Lars Schimmer
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