Re: [SLE] VMware 4.5.x and SuSE 9.3

On Friday 30 December 2005 23:37, Robert Paulsen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been running VMWare 4.5.2 on my SuSE 9.3 for some time with no
> problem.
>
> When I started VMware today I got a message that there was an upgrade
> available and sure enough there was a 4.5.3 dated 12/27 available. I
> installed the RPM but got an error message when running vmware-config.pl:
>
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only'
> Unable to make a vmnet module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
> insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet.o': -1 Unknown symbol
> in module
> There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration between
> the set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may
> want to rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another
> directory.
>

To answer my own question --

I forgot that you need to run the vmware patch program whenever a new version
of vmware is installed. The latest is vmware-any-any-update96.tar.gz.

With that all worked well.

Bob

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