Q: location of Was: VMWare

[Robert A. Klahn]

> As a note, I am trying to reinstall the latest version of 2.0.4, and
> before someone suggest upgrading to 3.0 all I'll say at this time is
> that I am unwilling to throw more good money after bad.

Hmmmm. And in response, all I can say is that Im running VMware Workstation 3.0 against kernel 2.4.17 without any problems. What kernel are you running? Perhaps that is the real issue.

Bob.

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:22:34 -0700
"John (EBo) David" <ebo@leml.la.asu.edu> wrote:

> 
> Well.. I tried installing VMWare and I get the follwoing error message:
> 
> Compiling  linux/driver.c
> In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/highmem.h:5,
>                  from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/pagemap.h:16,
>                  from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/locks.h:8,
>                  from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h:6,
>                  from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/miscdevice.h:4,
>                  from ../linux/driver.h:10,
>                  from ../linux/driver.c:58:
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `get_pgd_slow':
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:56: `PAGE_OFFSET' undeclared (first
> use in this function)
> ...
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/highmem.h: In function `copy_highpage':
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/highmem.h:101: `PAGE_SIZE' undeclared
> (first use in this function)
> ../linux/driver.c: In function `LinuxDriver_Ioctl':
> ../linux/driver.c:928: structure has no member named `dumpable'
> ...
> 
> 
> does anyone know where the PAGE_* stuff is defined so I can hack the
> driver code?  I rooted around the /usr/src/linux/linux/asm directory,
> but was never able to get it to compile the drivers.  Any suggersions?
> 
> As a note, I am trying to reinstall the latest version of 2.0.4, and
> before someone suggest upgrading to 3.0 all I'll say at this time is
> that I am unwilling to throw more good money after bad.
> 
>   EBo -
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