Re: Problems compiling kernel modules on Ubuntu 9.10

[Ben T. <ben...@gm...>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Marcelo Vanzin <mv...@vm...> wrote:

> Ben Tomasini wrote:
> > I have installed open vm tools on Ubunti 9.10 using apt-get.
>
> I see two completely different things on all the info you've posted, and
> none
> are related to open-vm-tools.
>
> > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running
> > kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/build/include]
>
> This looks like the message printed by the VMware Tools installer - a.k.a.,
> the
> Tools you get with your copy of Workstation or ESX or etc.
>


I did try to install the VMware Tools installer before trying the packaged
open-vm-tools from Ubuntu.  I also tried other's suggestions to place the
open-vm-tools tarballs into the VMWare distributi9on.  There is likely some
cross-over happening.


>
> > btomasini@benjto01-desktop:~$ dpkg -s open-vm-tools
> > Package: open-vm-tools
> > Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubu...@li...
> <mailto:ubu...@li...>>
>
> This is the open-vm-tools package maintained by the Ubuntu packagers; it is
> based on open-vm-tools, but we don't control how they package it.
>
> The question here is: how are you recompiling your modules? With the
> information
> you provided I have no idea how that's happening and who might be at fault.
>

I am recompiling the modules using the vmware-config-tools.pl script.
Clearly this looks to be VMWare proprietary.  I have just uninstalled the
vmware packages and am going to try the compile from the open-vm-source
provided by Ubuntu.

Thanks again.


>
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