suse9.x vmware安装缺少Module.symvers导致安装失败的解决办法

bencmai

1.安装问题一。
Trying to install VMWare Workstation on Suse 9. Needs to compile vmmon modules.
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I have a new default install of SUSE 9 Enterprise and am trying to install VMWare Workstation 4.5.2. (Of course, so that I have my old fall back of Windows until I learn this stuff).

I run the installation script "vmware-config.pl" and it indicates that "None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system?"

Of course, it could not find a compiler so Now I am feeding the process based on these error messages. I have installed the C compiler modules (GCC) using YAST2 and tried again and am now adding header files as best I can.

The state that I have reached is it finds GCC, and asks for the location of the C header files that match my running kernel [/usr/src/linux/include].

It appears to start building the vmmon modules displaying the following messages:
make -C /usr/src/linux/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.97'
Makefile:438 .config: No such file or directory

WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.97/Module.symvers is missing, modules will have CONFIG_MODVERSIONS disabled.

CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
/bin/sh: line 1: scripts/basic/fixdep: No such file or directory

etc, etc, etc.

Unable to build the vmmon module."


解决办法一

运行以下命令：
cd /usr/src/linux
make clean
make mrproper
make cloneconfig
make prepare-all

然后再运行安装脚本 ./vmware-XXXXX.pl

Suse 9.2 现在还不在Vmware的支持清单上,不过也可以通过安vmware-any-any-update83.tar.gz 包补丁来支持,下载网址为:
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/
在运行上述make clean,等命令之前 , 安装以上补丁后运行安装或配置脚本 vmware-xxxxx.pl 安装过程同样没任何问题

cyber_chen

谢谢,你的方法很管用.