Hi all,

i got trouble building the vmmon module for vmware workstation 7. I
tried with the ebuild driver as the module from vmware himself. Error
message is always the same(her the short one):

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/.

MODULEBUILDDIR= modules

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r6'

CC [M] /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o

/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In Funktion »init_module«:

/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:425: Fehler: »struct file_operations« hat kein Element namens »ioctl«

make[2]: *** [/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Fehler 1

make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only] Fehler 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r6'

make: *** [vmmon.ko] Fehler 2

I don't know how to solve this problem. Anyone a idea?
Kernelinfo:
Linux Slaxy 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Tue Dec 28 18:29:09 CET 2010 x86_64
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Work with the 2.6.35 perfectly fine, did not change a thing in the config.

Greeting from Germany
Akendo

PS: Happy new year

On 01/02/2011 04:43 AM, 4k3nd0 wrote:

Hi all,

i got trouble building the vmmon module for vmware workstation 7. I
tried with the ebuild driver as the module from vmware himself. Error
message is always the same(her the short one):

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.

»struct file_operations« hat kein Element namens »ioctl«

The ioctl item in file_operations was removed by the kernel devs a few
months ago while removing the Big Kernel Lock(BKL).


Kernelinfo:
Linux Slaxy 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Tue Dec 28 18:29:09 CET 2010 x86_64
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Work with the 2.6.35 perfectly fine, did not change a thing in the config.


The kernel devs change kernel data structures quite often, thereby breaking
all kinds of third-party software. I think I remember this one from building
nvidia-drivers. The nvidia devs soon re-wrote their code to use the new
kernel data-structure, and I imagine that vmware will need to do the same.
Maybe they have already fixed it in a newer vmware version, or will soon.

IIRC the nvidia team fixed this problem merely by removing any code that
refers to the ioctl member of a file_operations structure. That's pretty
trivial, so you can give it a try in your vmware code. No warranty implied

On 01/02/2011 04:43 AM, 4k3nd0 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i got trouble building the vmmon module for vmware workstation 7. I
> tried with the ebuild driver as the module from vmware himself.
>

This is a known problem. There have been some threads on this in the
VMware forums.

http://search.vmware.com/search?cn=vmware&cc=www&client=VMware_Site&entqr=0 &ud=1&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=VMware_gsa _Site&site=VMware_Site_communities&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=workstation+linux+2.6.36

>
> I don't know how to solve this problem.
>

The threads above have a patch that will allow the modules to build, or
you can revert to <2.6.36 and wait for VMware to release an update.

hope this helps
tim

--
Tim Sammut ~ Gentoo Security Team
underling@gentoo.org ~ C2375493

On 01/02/2011 02:43 PM, 4k3nd0 wrote:

Hi all,

i got trouble building the vmmon module for vmware workstation 7. I
tried with the ebuild driver as the module from vmware himself.


Are you using the vmware overlay?
app-emulation/vmware-workstation-7.1.3.324285 and
app-emulation/vmware-modules-238.3 work fine here with kernel 2.6.36-r6.