Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Vsock error when install vmware 2.0.x on Ubuntu 9.04

Save the below to file '/path/to/vmware-config.patch'

#### Begin ####

--- /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.orig 2008-11-28 12:06:35.641054086 +0100
+++ /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl 2008-11-28 12:30:38.593304082 +0100
@@ -4121,6 +4121,11 @@
return 'no';
}

+ if ($name eq 'vsock') {
+ print wrap("VMWare config patch VSOCK!\n");
+ system(shell_string($gHelper{'mv'}) . ' -vi ' . shell_string($build_dir . '/../Module.symvers') . ' ' . shell_string($build_dir . '/vsock-only/' ));
+ }
+
print wrap('Building the ' . $name . ' module.' . "\n\n", 0);
if (system(shell_string($gHelper{'make'}) . ' -C '
. shell_string($build_dir . '/' . $name . '-only')
@@ -4143,6 +4148,10 @@
if (try_module($name, $build_dir . '/' . $name . '.o', 0, 1)) {
print wrap('The ' . $name . ' module loads perfectly into the running kernel.'
. "\n\n", 0);
+ if ($name eq 'vmci') {
+ print wrap("VMWare config patch VMCI!\n");
+ system(shell_string($gHelper{'cp'}) . ' -vi ' . shell_string($build_dir.'/vmci-only/Module.symvers') . ' ' . shell_string($build_dir . '/../'));
+ }
remove_tmp_dir($build_dir);
return 'yes';
}

### End ###

run before you install
patch ./vmware-server-distrib/bin/vmware-config.pl /path/to/vmware-config.patch

Thanks

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