On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Pedro Del Medico Piermattei wrote:
> hi people, check this out
>
> http://www.vmware.com/support/ws2/doc/whatsnew_ws_linux.html
I'm guessing that you are referring to VMWare not supported on 2.4.x
kernel. The problem is the vmnet module's use of a definition that was
taken out of the kernel after 2.4.2. And since Mandrake 8.0 comes with
2.4.3, you are "not supported." But there's a simple fix that patches the
vmnet source file. Once you extract the tar file(vmnet.tar), cd into
vmware-distrib/lib/modules/source. Extract vmnet.tar, edit the vnetInt.h
in the vmnet-only directory. Right before :
# define SKB_IS_CLONE_OF(clone, skb) (\"
add:
# ifndef skb_datarefp
# define skb_datarefp(skb) skb_shinfo(skb)
# endif
Tar up this directory back into vmnet.tar and continue with the
installation.
John Kim
Linux System Engineer @ ASL - visit us at www.aslab.com
