From: John Bown (john.bown_at_brulant.com)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2007 - 22:30:49 CEST
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:30:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3F2FB49ADAE57C409F1927B1C7389D6E03ADB0D8@corpmail.brulant.com> From: "John Bown" <john.bown@brulant.com> Subject: RE: [suse-sles-e] VMware Server on SLES10 SP1
Good afternoon Joe. Thanks for replying. Actually, I tried the "low
road" on a previous install, one that had no updates of any kind, and
you're right, it worked like a charm! However, as I'm sure you'll
agree, it just doesn't seem practical to keep a production machine
behind the times by starving it of potentially important updates. There
must be a way to do this! Thanks again.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Georger [mailto:jgeorger@ll.mit.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 4:03 PM
To: suse-sles-e@suse.com
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] VMware Server on SLES10 SP1
The kernel source does not have delineations like smp or big smp - those
are options you select when you compile it into a kernel.
In lieu of any other suggestions I might take the low road and reinstall
SLES10 SP1 and NOT do the online update. Perhaps that is mucking you
up. From what I have seen you are doing it correctly. I have installed
VMWare Workstation 5.5 on SLES10 and SLED10 boxes, none SP1.
Joe
Muhammad Rizwan Ali wrote:
> 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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