Public bug reported: This is really a VMWare bug, but the vmmon and vmnet kernel modules don't compile against 2.6.24, which is used by Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy heron). Attached are two patches, which work on my machine running VMWare workstation 5.5.8 and Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Kernel version 2.6.24-19).
To install VMWare using these patches, extract vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar from vmware-distrib/lib/modules/source to new directories. Then apply the appropriate patch to each directory, and create a new tarball. Copy the new tarballs over the old ones in vmware-distrib/lib/modules/source and run the vmware-install.pl script. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- VMWare Workstation 5.5 kernel module (vmmon, vmnet) doesn't compile on 8.04 (hardy heron) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278838 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs