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04.04.2008 at 08:27PM PDT, ID: 23297920
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VMWare Workstation 6, openSUSE 10.3 32bit and VMWare tools problem.

Asked by whorsfall in VMware, Linux Networking, Operating System Specific Networking

Hi,

I am having a problem installing the vmware tools into a openSUSE 10.3 32bit virutal machine on VMWare workstation 6. (6.0.3-build 80004).

The problem is after the tools have been compiled the vmxnet module does not load. Any ideas how to fix this?

I have an edited log of me installing the vmware tools within the VM so you can see what happened.

Thanks,

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vm1:~ # uname -a
Linux vm1 2.6.22.17-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008/02/10 20:01:04 UTC i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
vm1:~ # cd /vmware
vm1:/vmware # ls
VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.i386.rpm  VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.tar.gz
vm1:/vmware # ls -la
total 108532
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      4096 2008-04-03 13:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root      4096 2008-04-04 23:28 ..
-rwxrwxrwx  1 ward users 55851594 2008-03-04 12:50 VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.i386.rpm
-rwxrwxrwx  1 ward users 55151822 2008-03-04 12:46 VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.tar.gz
vm1:/vmware # rpm -i VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.i386.rpm 
vm1:/vmware # 
vm1:/vmware # vmware-config-tools.pl
 
Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
   Guest operating system daemon:                                      done
Trying to find a suitable vmmemctl module for your running kernel.
 
None of the pre-built vmmemctl modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your 
running kernel.  Do you want this program to try to build the vmmemctl 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/2.6.22.17-0.1-default/build/include] 
 
Extracting the sources of the vmmemctl module.
.
. -- CUT --
.
Trying to find a suitable vmhgfs module for your running kernel.
 
None of the pre-built vmhgfs modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your 
running kernel.  Do you want this program to try to build the vmhgfs module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] 
 
Extracting the sources of the vmhgfs module.
 
Building the vmhgfs module.
 
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22.17-0.1-default/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.22.17-0.1-obj/i386/default'
make -C ../../../linux-2.6.22.17-0.1 O=../linux-2.6.22.17-0.1-obj/i386/default modules
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/backdoor.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/backdoorGcc32.o
.
. -- CUT --
.
pcnet32                35572  0 
Unloading pcnet32 module
 
Trying to find a suitable vmxnet module for your running kernel.
 
None of the pre-built vmxnet modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your 
running kernel.  Do you want this program to try to build the vmxnet module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] 
 
Extracting the sources of the vmxnet module.
 
Building the vmxnet module.
 
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmxnet-only'
.
. -- CUT --
.
Trying to find a suitable vmblock module for your running kernel.
 
None of the pre-built vmblock modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your 
running kernel.  Do you want this program to try to build the vmblock module 
for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? 
[yes] 
 
Extracting the sources of the vmblock module.
 
Building the vmblock module.
 
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmblock-only'
.
. -- CUT --
.
 
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