Comments on: vmware-specific-specific 5.5.x and kernel 2.6.32

By: Technologists Notes » Blog Archive » Fedora & VMWare “right side up”

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:34:35 +0000

[...] advice thread (vmware-specific-specific 5.5.x and kernel 2.6.32) that originally made me optimistic did not continue to offer encouragement. Anticipating Fedora 13 [...]

By: Ben Lindstrom

Ben Lindstrom — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:06:06 +0000

Same here. Unknown symbol in module error. *frown* Bad omen for SLED11 SP1 and VMWare Server 1.0.10

By: Sandesh

Sandesh — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:26:20 +0000

Hi,

I am getting following error message, any help?

In file included from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/vmcore/moduleloop.c:29:
/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/./common/hostif.h:39:7: warning: “WINNT_DDK” is not defined
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/vmmon.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/vmmon.o (.properties): unexpected non-allocatable section.
Did you forget to use “ax”/”aw” in a .S file?
Note that for example contains
section definitions for use in .S files.

WARNING: “init_mm” [/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko] undefined!
CC /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-22-generic’
cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only’
Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting ‘/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon.o’: -1 Unknown symbol in module
There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration between the
set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may want to
rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory.

Best Regards.
Sandesh

By: Cyber

Cyber — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:21:40 +0000

hi kang,

http://cableguy.no-ip.com/Files/vmware-update-2.6.32-33.5.5.9.1.tar.gz

it’s not in your format, just the two tars packed – init_mm patch is included, works here stable since over a month.

please do not post this link – i will delete the file soon, i have not enough bandwith … :-/
but so you do not need to do anything beside posting it here.

kind regards, Alois

By: kang

kang — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:49:15 +0000

Sorry, I have been using KVM lately
I might still make a clean 2.6.33 patch for the people (the one that doesnt require kernel changes), if only i could get some spare time
Maybe someone will come up with it before.
Still, I recommend switching to a newer vmware or virtualbox or kvm these days. kvm is a lot faster, virtualbox is nearly as good as vmware 5.5 and vmware 6.5/7 well.. they’re mostly supported xD

By: Technologists Notes » Blog Archive » Virtual satisfaction with VMware Server and kernel 2.6.31

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:40:05 +0000

[...] before Aack’s praised VirtualBox, but Kang still seems to be preparing for kernel 2.6.32 (vmware-specific-specific 5.5.x and kernel 2.6.32), so maybe things will be easy enough by the time Fedora 13 comes [...]

By: Pauel

Pauel — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:38:08 +0000

>>>PierP
>>>
>>>Works also great with VMware Server 1.0.10 (and 2.6.32.2)! >>>Just what I was looking for! Thanx!

How to establish this patch?

By: Cyber

Cyber — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:35:33 +0000

@kang: this patch works also for 2.6.33!
@hankang: altough I had manually alter the diffs (I think the tag-stripper still did his work) it works now also without patching init_mm – great.

perhaps complete packages can be created?

kind regards, Alois

By: hankang

hankang — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:22:52 +0000

Updating what I did for 2.6.31 – no need to recompile host kernel!

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
cp vmmon.tar vmmon.2.6.32.save.tar
cp vmnet.tar vmnet.2.6.32.save.tar
tar xf vmmon.tar
tar xf vmnet.tar
cat %3C%3C HERE | patch -p1
diff -Naur ./vmmon-only.old/include/compat_pgtable.h ./vmmon-only/include/compat_pgtable.h
— ./vmmon-only.old/include/compat_pgtable.h 2007-07-22 07:21:17.000000000 -0400
+++ ./vmmon-only/include/compat_pgtable.h 2010-02-02 15:54:55.000000000 -0500
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
#endif

-#ifdef pgd_offset_k
+#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE %3C KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 25)) && defined(pgd_offset_k)
# define compat_pgd_offset_k(mm, address) pgd_offset_k(address)
#else
# define compat_pgd_offset_k(mm, address) pgd_offset(mm, address)
diff -Naur ./vmmon-only.old/include/pgtbl.h ./vmmon-only/include/pgtbl.h
— ./vmmon-only.old/include/pgtbl.h 2007-07-22 07:21:17.000000000 -0400
+++ ./vmmon-only/include/pgtbl.h 2010-03-09 06:44:56.000000000 -0500
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
#include “compat_spinlock.h”
#include “compat_page.h”

-
/*
*—————————————————————————–
*
diff -Naur ./vmmon-only.old/include/vmci_kernel_defs.h ./vmmon-only/include/vmci_kernel_defs.h
— ./vmmon-only.old/include/vmci_kernel_defs.h 2007-05-02 00:08:21.000000000 -0400
+++ ./vmmon-only/include/vmci_kernel_defs.h 2010-03-09 06:53:14.000000000 -0500
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include “compat_interrupt.h”
#include “compat_spinlock.h”
#include “compat_slab.h”
+#include “compat_sched.h”
#endif // linux

#ifdef __APPLE__
diff -Naur ./vmmon-only.old/linux/hostif.c ./vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c
— ./vmmon-only.old/linux/hostif.c 2009-04-21 10:47:54.000000000 -0400
+++ ./vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c 2010-02-02 15:56:33.000000000 -0500
@@ -564,6 +564,7 @@
static void
DoClearNXBit(VA vaddr)
{
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE %3C KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 25)
int ptemap;
pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset_k(vaddr);
pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset_map(pgd, vaddr);
@@ -574,6 +575,10 @@
} else {
pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, vaddr);
}
+#else /* >= 2.6.25 */
+ int level;
+ pte_t *pte = lookup_address(vaddr & PAGE_MASK, &level);
+#endif /* linux version */
if (pte_val(*pte) & _PAGE_NX) {
/* pte_val() is not lvalue on x86 PAE */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
HERE
cat << HERE | patch -p1
diff -Naur ./vmnet-only.old/compat_pgtable.h ./vmnet-only/compat_pgtable.h
— ./vmnet-only.old/compat_pgtable.h 2007-11-28 05:25:06.000000000 -0500
+++ ./vmnet-only/compat_pgtable.h 2010-02-02 15:58:37.000000000 -0500
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
#endif

NOTE: I replaced %3C with %253C so the tag stripper wouldn’t rip out pieces of the script.

By: Aack

Aack — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:12:26 +0000

Ok, so I took Ramon’s patch and stole all the good bits to make server 1.0.10 compile for 2.6.31 on fedora 12, however when a guest is started, my system (core2 quad 3.0G) slows to almost stopped. I’ve tried several variations of his fixes vs Kang’s fixes + Ramons init_mm fix, etc. All seem to give the same result. I’m stumped. Any ideas on what to try next welcome. I would prefer to stick with version 1 for the console.