From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1 Description of problem: The update to kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 breaks VMware. The modules can't be compiled: [root@riker ~]# vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped. Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor [ OK ] Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ OK ] Virtual ethernet [ OK ] Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel. None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.14_FC3smp/build/include] Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.14_FC3smp/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.14_FC3smp/build' CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:68: /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/pgtbl.h: In function `PgtblVa2PTELocked': /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/pgtbl.h:81: Fehler: Anfrage nach Element »pgd« in etwas, was keine Struktur oder Variante ist make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o] Fehler 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Fehler 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.14_FC3smp/build' make: *** [vmmon.ko] Fehler 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and "http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html". Execution aborted. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to compile the VMware modules 2. 3. Additional info:
vmware problem
This is vmware's problem. But it may be of use to those that run into this problem to know that there is a package available that tries to keep up with the latest kernel changes. http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ Currently the latest package appears to be: http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update90.tar.gz They usually shadow the kernel changes by a couple weeks.