VM Linux Guest Kernel Compilation Error
Posted by jlchannel - on December 2nd, 2008 in Tips, Workstations | 2 Comments »
I have a OpenSuSE 11 running on my laptop VMware Workstation 6.5.1 recently. During VMware Tools installation, I found a weird error show as below:
“The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware Installer. Please remove them then run this installer again.”
vmblock
vmhgfs
vmmemctl
vmxnet
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Execution aborted.
Solutions are:
# rm /lib/modules/2.6.25.5-1.1-default/updates/vmblock.ko
# rm /lib/modules/2.6.25.5-1.1-default/updates/vmhgfs.ko
# rm /lib/modules/2.6.25.5-1.1-default/updates/vmmemctl.ko
# rm /lib/modules/2.6.25.5-1.1-default/updates/vmxnet.ko
Configure VMware Tools again!
# vmware-config-tools.pl
Probably you may refer to VMware tools for Linux for more about VMware Tools installations.
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Tags: compile, error, guest, kernel, Linux, opensuse, workstation
2 Responses
Sounds like OpenSuSE are including open-vm-tools out-of-the-box, so you don’t need to build them yourself. Is there an open-vm-tools RPM that you can install to get the binaries?
Dan, you’re right. OpenSuSE 11 have open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-21.1 installed for me.