Today I upgraded vmware-server to 1.0.1.29996 and /opt/vmware/server/bin/vmware-config.pl fails to build the kernel modules. The vmware-config.pl does not produce any error: # /opt/vmware/server/bin/dj_vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped. * WARNING: vmware has not yet been started. Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries. You have already setup networking. Would you like to skip networking setup and keep your old settings as they are? (yes/no) [yes] Please specify a port for remote console connections to use [902] The file "/etc/xinetd.d/vmware-authd" already exists and seems to have been modified manually. Overwrite? [no] Configuring the VMware VmPerl Scripting API. Building the VMware VmPerl Scripting API. Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override. Installing the VMware VmPerl Scripting API. The installation of the VMware VmPerl Scripting API succeeded. Do you want this program to set up permissions for your registered virtual machines? This will be done by setting new permissions on all files found in the "/etc/vmware/vm-list" file. [no] Generating SSL Server Certificate In which directory do you want to keep your virtual machine files? [/var/lib/vmware/Virtual_Machines] Do you want to enter a serial number now? (yes/no/help) [no] * Starting VMware services: [ ok ] * Virtual machine monitor [ !! ] * Virtual ethernet [ !! ] * Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ !! ] The configuration of VMware Server 1.0.1 build-29996 for Linux for this running kernel completed successfully. And here is my emerge --info Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/var/pkgdir" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 apache2 bash-completion bzip2 crypt fam hardened hardenedphp logrotate logwatch ncurses nls no-htdocs nptl perl python readline ssl urandom userlocales zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Regards, --Dan
Eh, what kind of kernel modules should it build? The kernel modules are a completely separate ebuild: $ equery f vmware-modules [ Searching for packages matching vmware-modules... ] * Contents of app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15: /etc /etc/udev /etc/udev/rules.d /etc/udev/rules.d/60-vmware.rules /lib /lib/modules /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r5 /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r5/misc /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r5/misc/vmmon.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r5/misc/vmnet.ko
Sorry, my Error. --Dan
Closing. ;)
