can't configure vmware's kernel modules computer is an smp system Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1./opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl Actual Results: /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl Making sure VMware Workstation's services are stopped. Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor done You must read and accept the End User License Agreement to continue. Press enter to display it. Do you accept? (yes/no) yes Thank you. Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel. None of VMware Workstation's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.3-mm1/build/include] Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. make: execvp: ./getversion.pl: Permission denied make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config24/vmmon-only' Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make -C /lib/modules/2.6.3-mm1/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-mm1' *** Warning: Overriding SUBDIRS on the command line can cause *** inconsistencies make[2]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date. make[2]: execvp: /tmp/vmware-config24/vmmon-only/./getversion.pl: Permission denied CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config24/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o /tmp/vmware-config24/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:98: error: syntax error before ';' tokenmake[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config24/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config24/vmmon-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-mm1' make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config24/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and "http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html". Execution aborted. Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.3-mm1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-mm1 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/jakarta/tomcat/conf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb cdr clamav crypt cups dillo encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile icc imlib java jikes jpeg junit ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xface xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I get the same error about getversion.pl and it's cuz I have /tmp mounted noexec. If I remount it exec then vmware configures properly.
Pavel? Is your /tmp mounted noexec?
That seems to have fixed the bug that I described so thank you, no I have a different problem. If you can help great, otherwise I will have to make a new bug report. Again thank you. I feel I am half way there. /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl Making sure VMware Workstation's services are stopped. Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor done Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel. None of VMware Workstation's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.3-mm3/build/include] Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. Building for VMware Workstation 4.0.x. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config25/vmmon-only' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.3-mm3/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-mm3' *** Warning: Overriding SUBDIRS on the command line can cause *** inconsistencies make[2]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date. CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmmon-only/common/task.o cc1plus: warning: "-Wdeclaration-after-statement" is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++ LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmmon-only/vmmon.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST CC /tmp/vmware-config25/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-mm3' cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config25/vmmon-only' The module loads perfectly in the running kernel. Extracting the sources of the vmnet module. Building the vmnet module. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config25/vmnet-only' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.3-mm3/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-mm3' *** Warning: Overriding SUBDIRS on the command line can cause *** inconsistencies make[2]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date. CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmnet-only/driver.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmnet-only/hub.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmnet-only/userif.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmnet-only/netif.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmnet-only/bridge.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmnet-only/procfs.o LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmnet-only/vmnet.o Building modules, stage 2. /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-mm3/scripts/Makefile.modpost:17: Trouble: fs/fat/fat.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_ftp.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_irc.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_irc.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_snmp_basic.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_NETMAP.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REDIRECT.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_SAME.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_ah.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_conntrack.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_dscp.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_ecn.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_esp.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_helper.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_iprange.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_length.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_limit.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_mac.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_mark.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_multiport.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_owner.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_pkttype.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_recent.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_state.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_tcpmss.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_tos.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_ttl.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_filter.ko net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.ko fs/isofs/isofs.ko crypto/md5.ko fs/msdos/msdos.ko fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko crypto/sha512.ko fs/udf/udf.ko fs/vfat/vfat.ko /tmp/vmware-config25/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko /tmp/vmware-config25/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-mm3/scripts/Makefile.modpost:18: *** Uh-oh, you have stale module entries. You messed with SUBDIRS, /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-mm3/scripts/Makefile.modpost:19: do not complain if something goes wrong. MODPOST CC /tmp/vmware-config25/vmnet-only/vmnet.mod.o LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config25/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-mm3' cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config25/vmnet-only' The module loads perfectly in the running kernel. Do you want networking for your virtual machines? (yes/no/help) [no] Do you want this program to automatically configure your system to allow your virtual machines to access the host's filesystem? (yes/no/help) [no] Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor failed The configuration of VMware Workstation 4.0.5 build-6030 for Linux for this running kernel completed successfully. You can now run VMware Workstation by invoking the following command: "/opt/vmware/bin/vmware". Enjoy, --the VMware team
I would say create a new bug and assign it to me. I'll comment there, since it is a different problem.
