{"id":562,"date":"2012-11-18T09:39:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T09:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2012-11-18T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T09:39:58","slug":"vmware-9-0-1-not-so-clever-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"VMware 9.0.1 – Not so Clever, After all.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Just updated the kernel on my test system to 3.7-rc6, and discovered – sadly – that the standard VMware (re)compile\/install script – vmware-modconfig<\/strong><\/em> – still doesn’t find the ‘relocated’ version.h<\/strong> in the 3.7 series kernels.<\/p>\n

So, although the VMware new-install\/update script (VMware-Workstation-Full-9.0.1-894247.x86_64.bundle<\/strong><\/em>, in this case), does<\/span> recognise the 3.7 change, the (re)compilation script doesn’t<\/span>..<\/p>\n

# vmware-modconfig –console –install-all<\/em><\/strong>
\nFailed to setup build environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, you still<\/span> have to do:<\/p>\n

# ln -s \/usr\/src\/linux-3.7-rc6\/include\/generated\/uapi\/linux\/version.h \/usr\/src\/linux-3.7-rc6\/include\/linux\/version.h<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

– and then everything works OK..<\/p>\n

The difficulty here, is that vmware-modconfig<\/em><\/strong> is just a ‘wrapper’, which then runs the binary<\/strong> which handles the re-compile process, and it is that binary that – ideally – needs to be fixed!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When I have more time, I will see if there is a hack to modify the ‘wrapper’ script, but for now, the simple ‘softlink’ shown above will do the job..<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 November 18th, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just updated the kernel on my test system to 3.7-rc6, and discovered – sadly – that the standard VMware (re)compile\/install script – vmware-modconfig – still doesn’t find the ‘relocated’ version.h in the 3.7 series kernels. So, although the VMware new-install\/update script (VMware-Workstation-Full-9.0.1-894247.x86_64.bundle, in this case), does recognise the 3.7 change, the (re)compilation script doesn’t.. # vmware-modconfig –console …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,11,14,15,25],"tags":[73,220,265,1175,393,402,409,418],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-vmware","tag-9-0-1","tag-kernel-3-7","tag-moved","tag-success","tag-version-h","tag-vmware-2","tag-vmware-modconfig","tag-workaround"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}