Comments on: VMWare Server 2: Unable to build the vsock module

By: Marcus Berglof

Marcus Berglof — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:13:50 +0000

Argh.. copy-n-paste from the web never works as intended.
The patch is available at http://mina.fulhack.se/vsock-debian.patch

/Marcus

By: Marcus Berglof

Marcus Berglof — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:13:00 +0000

Argh.. copy-n-paste from the web never works as intended.
The patch is available at http://mina.fulhack.se/vsock-debian.patch

/Marcus

By: Marcus Berglof

Marcus Berglof — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:55:48 +0000

/*
INSTALL:

Put the patch named vsock-debian.patch in the directory where
the VMWare file is and you can just paste this straight in a
bash shell or into a file.

#!/bin/bash
tar -xzf VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.x86_64.tar.gz && \
cd vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source && \
tar -xf vsock.tar && patch -p1 < $OLDPWD/vsock-debian.patch && \
tar -cf vsock.tar vsock-only && rm -rf vsock-only && \
cd ../../ && sudo ./vmware-install.pl

# End of script

Have fun!

Marcus Berglof

— ./vsock-only.orig/autoconf/cachecreate.c 2009-03-27 08:17:12.000000000 +0100
+++ ./vsock-only/autoconf/cachecreate.c 2009-05-17 19:20:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
*
*********************************************************/

-#include
+
#include

/*
— ./vsock-only.orig/autoconf/epoll.c 2009-03-27 08:17:12.000000000 +0100
+++ ./vsock-only/autoconf/epoll.c 2009-05-17 19:20:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
* never had it, but some distros backported epoll patch.
*/

-#include
+
#include

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 0)
— ./vsock-only.orig/autoconf/filldir1.c 2009-03-27 08:17:12.000000000 +0100
+++ ./vsock-only/autoconf/filldir1.c 2009-05-17 19:20:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
*
*********************************************************/

-#include
+
#include

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 20)
— ./vsock-only.orig/autoconf/geninclude.c 2009-03-27 08:17:12.000000000 +0100
+++ ./vsock-only/autoconf/geninclude.c 2009-05-17 19:20:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
*
*********************************************************/

-#include
+

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER
APATH/mach-voyager
— ./vsock-only.orig/autoconf/getsb1.c 2009-03-27 08:17:12.000000000 +0100
+++ ./vsock-only/autoconf/getsb1.c 2009-05-17 19:20:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
*
*********************************************************/

-#include
+
#include

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 19)
— ./vsock-only.orig/autoconf/setnice.c 2009-03-27 08:17:12.000000000 +0100
+++ ./vsock-only/autoconf/setnice.c 2009-05-17 19:20:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
* set_user_nice appeared in 2.4.21. But some distros
* backported it to older kernels.
*/
-#include
+
#include

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 4, 21)
— ./vsock-only.orig/autoconf/sk_filter.c 2009-03-27 08:17:12.000000000 +0100
+++ ./vsock-only/autoconf/sk_filter.c 2009-05-17 19:20:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
* This test will fail to build on kernels with the new interface.
*/

-#include
+
#include

/*
— ./vsock-only.orig/autoconf/statfs1.c 2009-03-27 08:17:12.000000000 +0100
+++ ./vsock-only/autoconf/statfs1.c 2009-05-17 19:20:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
*
*********************************************************/

-#include
+
#include

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 19)

By: Marcus Berglof

Marcus Berglof — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:55:00 +0000

/*
INSTALL:

Put the patch named vsock-debian.patch in the directory where
the VMWare file is and you can just paste this straight in a
bash shell or into a file.

#!/bin/bash
tar -xzf VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.x86_64.tar.gz &&
cd vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source &&
tar -xf vsock.tar && patch -p1 < $OLDPWD/vsock-debian.patch &&
tar -cf vsock.tar vsock-only && rm -rf vsock-only &&
cd ../../ && sudo ./vmware-install.pl

# End of script

Have fun!

Marcus Berglof

-#include
+
#include

-#include
+

-#include
+
#include

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 19)

By: pdwalker

pdwalker — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:09:32 +0000

That fixed it for me.

Thanks!

If you update the vsock.tar file with your fixes, you can place the vsock.tar in /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source so the vmware-config-tools.pl script can find it.

By: pdwalker

pdwalker — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:09:00 +0000

That fixed it for me.

Thanks!

If you update the vsock.tar file with your fixes, you can place the vsock.tar in /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source so the vmware-config-tools.pl script can find it.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:49:26 +0000

Thanks, that fixed the problem on my Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex system.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:49:00 +0000

Thanks, that fixed the problem on my Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex system.

By: Toshiro

Toshiro — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:59:10 +0000

Thanks a lot.
I have changed:
$ sudo ln -s vsock.o /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/vsock.ko
with:
$ sudo ln -s /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/vsock.o /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/vsock.ko
It’s a link and you may whant to remove the hold vsock-only directory.
Bye

By: Toshiro

Toshiro — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:59:00 +0000