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VMware – 11.1.2 Released, No Patch Needed.. — 3 Comments

  1. i can’t install vmware 11.1.2 on openSUSE 13.2 with new kernel 4.1.0.
    when i try to run
    /usr/bin/vmware-modconfig –console –install-all

    i receive the following error:

    Failed to get gcc information.

    Kernel 4.1.0 is compiled with gcc 5.1.1:
    cat /proc/version
    Linux version 4.1.0-2.g6c74958-desktop (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 5.1.1 20150622 [gcc-5-branch revision 224722] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 24 03:16:43 UTC 2015 (6c74958)

    i have installed gcc 5.1.1:
    gcc –version
    gcc (SUSE Linux) 5.1.1 20150622 [gcc-5-branch revision 224722]
    Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
    warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

    but it is not working.

  2. yes, it is more or less the same issue.
    the /usr/bin/vmware-modconfig tool has the problem not to detect, which gcc it is using.
    it notices that the kernel is made with gcc 5.1.1
    because of this, it wants to use exactly the same gcc to build it’s kernel modules.
    and i have installed exactly this gcc, so it should work.
    but vmware-modconfig is not able to detect/notice this, so it stops, telling me, it can’t detect which gcc is installed.

    i solved it by compiling the 2 modules vmnet and vmmon manually and copying the results to /lib/modules/4.1.0-2.g6c74958-desktop/misc/.

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