VMware Server 1.0.7 - compile errors on vmware-config-tools

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Hi all,

yes, I searched all the threads around VMware issues on OpenSUSE 11 - still I did not succeed.

I tried it with the OpenSUSE 11 open-vm package and with the VMware supplied tar-file. In any case I am running into the following compile errors:

make: Entering directory /tmp/vmware-config7/vmhgfs-only' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.25.5-1.1-pae/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.5-1.1-obj/i386/pae’
make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.5-1.1 O=/usr/src/linux-2.6.25.5-1.1-obj/i386/pae/. modules
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config7/vmhgfs-only/cpName.o
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.5-1.1/include/linux/string.h:11,
from /tmp/vmware-config7/vmhgfs-only/cpName.h:18,
from /tmp/vmware-config7/vmhgfs-only/cpName.c:18:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.25.5-1.1/include/linux/types.h:40: error: conflicting types for ‘uintptr_t’
/tmp/vmware-config7/vmhgfs-only/vm_basic_types.h:161: error: previous declaration of ‘uintptr_t’ was here
make[4]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config7/vmhgfs-only/cpName.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [module/tmp/vmware-config7/vmhgfs-only] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.5-1.1-obj/i386/pae' make: *** [vmhgfs.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory /tmp/vmware-config7/vmhgfs-only’
Unable to build the vmhgfs module.

Any hints are appreciated!

Best regards
Hannes

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Hannes,

not exactly sure where the problem is. You have VMWare Server 1.0.7, Opensuse 11 as a guest, and now you want to install the VMWare Tools in the Opensuse 11 guest?

Uwe

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Correct.

The problem is the type conflict with uintptr_t. I tried to resolve it, but on checking the C sources more and more issues revealed.

Best regards
Hannes

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AFAIK vmhgfs is used for shared folders and is not a requirement of vmware tools. Tools runs fine without it.

Shared folders are not supported on vmware server.

Jeff

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Yeps, but this image has to be shared with users who do have VM Workstation - so installing vmware-tools would be a benefit…

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  • HannesSchubert wrote, On 09/25/2008 09:06 AM:
    > Yeps, but this image has to be shared with users who do have VM
    > Workstation - so installing vmware-tools would be a benefit…

Let me check, I need to install an Opensuse 11 guest first.

Uwe

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  • HannesSchubert,

see what you mean now. Is
http://kamilkisiel.blogspot.com/2007/11/installing-vmware-tools-on-kernel-2622.html
any help?

Uwe

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Uwe,

first thank you for the hint!

However, I do not see so. It is a problem with a duplicate definition of uintptr_t (and others), but not i_blksize. I tried to fix it, but after 2 hours rearranging #defines I left it alone. Currently I am suspecting that kernel headers do not match - allthough they all are installed directly from the distribution.

Have a nice weekend

Hannes