From: Muhammad Rizwan Ali (mrizwanali_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2007 - 21:46:49 CEST
Message-ID: <a46a9b410710031246q263c8091p6e11e033552ba5df@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:46:49 -0700 From: "Muhammad Rizwan Ali" <mrizwanali@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] VMware Server on SLES10 SP1
Hi,
your running kernel is 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp. U need to have the same kernel
source - 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp file to compile.
Or u shud change ur running kernel to 2.6.16.53-0.8-smp to match the kernel
source file of 2.6.16.53-0.8-smp
Regards
Rizwan
On 10/3/07, John Bown <john.bown@brulant.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone. I'm trying to install VMware Server 1.0.3 on a freshly
> installed and completely patched SLES 10 SP1 box. I've barely even
> touched the thing and already there are problems. Here's what I've done
> so far:
>
>
>
> 1) Added kernel-source, gcc, gcc-c++ and make.
>
> 2) Executed the following three commands from the
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.16.53-0.8 directory: make mrproper, make cloneconfig
> and modules_prepare.
>
> 3) vmware-config.pl ends with the following:
>
>
>
> The directory of kernel headers (version 2.6.16.53-0.8-smp) does not
> match your running kernel (version 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp). Even if the
> module were to compile successfully, it would not load into the running
> kernel.
>
>
>
> Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? If I just did an online update,
> how are my kernel and kernel headers not the same version? None of the
> following have worked:
>
>
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Setting_up_VMware_on_SUSE_Linux
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Recovering_VMware_Workstation_After_a_Kernel_Upda
> te
>
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/15963.html
>
>
>
> Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
> John
>
>
>
>
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