VMWare Can't Find GCC 5.1.1 Although it's There

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#1

I installed VMWare and it wants to compile some of its stuff and needs GCC 5.1.1 which I have installed in /usr/bin/gcc.

Regretfully VMWare keeps telling me it can’t find a compatible GCC version.

What might be the problem ?

Here is the output of my gcc -v command

 alexander@localhost:~> gcc -v 
Using built-in specs. 
COLLECT_GCC=gcc 
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/5/lto-wrapper 
Target: x86_64-suse-linux 
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/shar
e/man --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,
obj-c++,java,ada,go --enable-checking=release --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/5 
--enable-ssp --disable-libssp --disable-libvtv --enable-libmpx --disable-plugin --with-b
ugurl=http://bugs.opensuse.org/ --with-pkgversion='SUSE Linux' --disable-libgcj --with-s
libdir=/lib64 --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new 
--disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-linker-build-id 
--enable-linux-futex --program-suffix=-5 --without-system-libunwind --enable-multilib --
with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic --build=x86_64-suse-linux --host=x86_64-suse-linux 
Thread model: posix 
gcc version 5.1.1 20150713 [gcc-5-branch revision 225736] (SUSE Linux)  
alexander@localhost:~>
#2

I just tried


 vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

and got the following error.

Failed to get gcc information.
#3

Hi
Have a read here, not supported yet, but seems to be a work around on page 2;
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/509702?tstart=0

If you cpu supports virtualization, maybe look at something like kvm instead to avoid these sorts of issues…

#4

OK I installed KVM but when I try to launch the Virtual Machines Manager nothing happens.

When I try to launch virt-manager from Konsole I get the following error

sudo virt-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager”, line 31, in <module>
from gi.repository import LibvirtGLib
ImportError: cannot import name LibvirtGLib

EDIT: I searched for and installed LibvritGLib manually and now it launches but displays another error:

Unable to connect to libvirt.

no connection driver available for qemu:///system

When I click details I get the following

Unable to connect to libvirt.

no connection driver available for qemu:///system

Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py”, line 864, in _do_open
self._backend.open(self._do_creds_password)
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py”, line 161, in open
open_flags)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py”, line 105, in openAuth
if ret is None:raise libvirtError(‘virConnectOpenAuth() failed’)
libvirtError: no connection driver available for qemu:///system

#5

Hi
Is the kvm kernel module for your cpu loaded?


lsmod | grep kvm

For amd cpu it’s kvm_amd and intel kvm_intel, also is virtualization enabled in the system BIOS?

Is the libvirtd service enabled and running?


systemctl status libvirtd.service
#6

Problem solved. Here is what I did.

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Virtualization.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install qemu

This installed qemu from the Virtualization repository.

Tried again. Same error. So I ran

sudo zypper dup

and replaced all virtualization libraries with the ones from the new repo. This solved the problem successfully.

Now I have another problem. Xen promised me that at boot there will be an option to boot into Xen but I see no such option. What did I do wrong ?

#7

On Wed 30 Sep 2015 03:16:01 PM CDT, Dellius wrote:

Problem solved. Here is what I did.

Code:

zypper addrepo
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Virtualization.repo
zypper refresh zypper install qemu

This installed qemu from the Virtualization repository.

Tried again. Same error. So I ran
Code:

sudo zypper dup

and replaced all virtualization libraries with the ones from the new
repo. This solved the problem successfully.

Now I have another problem. Xen promised me that at boot there will be
an option to boot into Xen but I see no such option. What did I do wrong
?

Hi
I don’t use Xen just kvm/virsh.

Have you looked in YaST at the virtualization tools?

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#8

Interesting if you can get gcc5.x to work.

When I ran into what seems to likely be the same problem running vmware-tools-patches (the way to upgrade Tools) a couple months ago which involves re-compiling the kernel, my solution was to revert to gcc 4.6.

With this thread, I’m re-thinking whether gcc5.x is altogether “bad” with my recent experience updating Tools on LEAP. LEAP installs both gcc 4.6 and 5.x, and I <think> it’s successfully using gcc 5.x to update Tools(well, it worked up to M2. There is now a problem with Beta 1. Who knows, maybe with Beta 1 LEAP incorporated a TW method that breaks gcc 5.x). It might be interesting to see if Workstation 11 or 12 installs on LEAP without a problem, this might indicate it’s not gcc 5.x but how it’s implemented that is the problem.

In the meantime, I’ve submitted a feature request for TW to implement gcc as an “update-alternatives” to enable easy and quick switching.

TSU

#9

Downgraded to 13.2. Now it works fine.

#10

Almost certainly because gcc 5.x hasn’t been pushed to 13.2 so you’re compiling with gcc 4.6.
As I noted, I’ve found the same in TW, if you compile with gcc 4.6 you should be successful.

TSU