[svlug] Error building VMware

[Skip Evans]

Hey all,

I got the exact same error when installing the .deb file 
created from the .rpm. It does the install but gets the error 
doing the compile.

These machines have the latest version of Ubuntu 8.10, 
installed only days ago. They are super generic. I'm really 
surprised VMware would have these issues.

I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, 
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, 
really, really, really, really, don't want to run Windows as 
the host OS... really, I don't... do you believe me?

Any suggestions would be appreciated. In the meantime, I will 
be a' Googlin'

Skip

Skip Evans wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> So on someone's advice I decided to go with the tar.gz instead 
> of attempting to convert the VMware rpm file into a deb, and 
> during the install of the tar.gz I got this:
> 
> None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is 
> suitable for your running kernel.  Do you want this program to 
> try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to 
> have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]
> 
> That was after following instructions here:
> 
> http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-2-on-ubuntu-8.10
> 
> Including this one:
> 
> apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd
> 
> Then I got this during the compile:
> 
> /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_semaphore.h:5:27: 
> error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> Found a suggested fix via Google but it didn't help.
> 
> Grrrr... any suggestions?
> 

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