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Subject: Re: fixing Vmware 2 port for 5.x and 6.x.. kmem _alloc_pageable
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Sean Welch writes:
| >vmware/linux has a bug.  Linux libs changed the call breaking
| >vmware.  There are source programs to patch the vmware binaries.
| >Do a google search for vmware-any-any-update, build and run against
| >you vmware bin.
| 
| Would you please elaborate?  I have downloaded the aforementioned
| patch but have been unable to get it to do anything useful.  Namely,
| the thing expects to be run under linux and doesn't get very far:
| 
| 	# ./runme.pl 
| 	Unable to open the installer database /etc/vmware/locations in
| 	read-mode.
| 
| 	Execution aborted.
| 
| What would you recommend?

Skip the extra bits and just go for the code.
	make update
	cp <vmware bin location> vmware.orig
	./update <vmware bin location>

Then it should be good to go.

Doug A.