Comments on: vmware-an..specific-specific 5.5.7 and kernel 2.6.26

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:23:51 +0000

Let me do a little debugging here:

To get VMMON_VERSION_V55 we must be in LinuxDriver_IoctlV55(), in
driver_compat2.h, since that is the only place where it occurs.

I don’t know how we get there but it says

case IOCTL_VMX86_S1B1_VERSION:
return VMMON_VERSION_V55;

which seems strange to me…, do you agree?

To get there we must have case VME_V55 in “switch (vmLinux->version)” in
LinuxDriver_Ioctl, also in driver_compat2.h.

We also see that it says “VMware 2 or VMware Express detected, building
for VMware 2, VMware Express and VMware Workstation 4.0.x.” in
getversion.pl, which would be the case for “if (not defined($res)) {”
but which would also yield VME_V4, not VME_V55, so I am a little
confused here…

By: kang

kang — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:31:30 +0000

Hi Mark,
unfortunately this means your vmware version is more recent than the pach (the patch works fine)
However.. maybe you have ws 5.5 scripts (or binary) and server 1.x at the same time or something?
Here’s vmmon version table:
#define VMMON_VERSION_GSX1 (3 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_V3 (8 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_V32 (10 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_GSX2 (21 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_V321 (30 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_GSX25 (41 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_GSX251 (42 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_V4 (52 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_V45 (79 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_V452 (81 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_GSX32 (85 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_V5 (116 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_V55 (137 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_S1B1 (138 << 16 | 0)
#define VMMON_VERSION_V6 (161 << 16 | 0)

S1B1 is correct and is 138. 137 is ws 5.5

This is the part that detect vmware version running:
switch (iocmd) {
case IOCTL_VMX86_S1B1_VERSION:
return VMMON_VERSION_S1B1;

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:56:02 +0000

It’s not working, unfortunately. (expected v138, got v137)

Debian Lenny 5.0.3 with Kernel 2.6.26(-2-686) and VMware Server 1.0.9 or 1.0.10

For full details see:
http://pastebin.com/f8c10b0e

By: gomadtroll

gomadtroll — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:36:48 +0000

Thank you, thank you Vmware WS 5.5.9 and Debian Lenny (kernel 2.6.26)+vmware-update-2.6.26-5.5.7. Spews a few errors during config.pl, it works though.

I have been using kernel 2.6.18 + WS 5.5.4 for ‘quite some time’ and was glad to find a way to ‘modernize’ a legacy piece of software.

By: stig

stig — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:23:54 +0000

It worked for vmware 1.0.9 and linux 2.6.26. Thanks!

It seem every time I upgrade vmware I end up in a panic when the kernel modules don’t compile. Why can’t vmware get their act together?

By: flobee

flobee — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:40 +0000

sorry, not on my system
any ideas?

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only’
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686′
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driverLog.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/comport.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/hash.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/task.o
gcc-4.1: error trying to exec ‘cc1plus’: execvp: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/task.o] Fehler 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only] Fehler 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686′
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Fehler 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/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.

debian:~/vmware-update-2.6.26-5.5.7#

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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:41:39 +0000

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By: Brad R

Brad R — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:51:12 +0000

Thank you VERY MUCH for this!

One note for others: when I first installed this and ran vmware-config.pl, I got the error message
error trying to exec ‘cc1plus’: execvp: No such file or directory

This means you need to install the g++ compiler. (I had gcc but not g++.) Once that was installed, it worked great!

By: Hotz

Hotz — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:18:19 +0000

Thank you!

By: kpeter

kpeter — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:52:16 +0000

Thanx,

It work very mutch!

I try before any-any on, debian lenny 2.6.26-1 vmware server 1.0.8
I got “version mismatch vmmon module expecting 138,0 got 168.0″ problem

Thx agan, nice job.

PETER