[LUAU] VMWare & SuSE 9.2

[Michael Bishop]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 20:55:31 -1000, "Rodney Kanno"
<pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com> said:
> Has anyone been successful in getting VMWare workstation 4.5.2 to work 
> on a default installation of SuSE 9.2? I have installed the vmware rpm 
> as well a make and gcc, but during the vmware-config.pl process, I get 
> the following error message:
> 
> /make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
> make -C /usr/src/linux/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.10'
> 
> WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.10/Module.symvers 
> is  missing, modules will have CONFIG_MODVERSIONS disabled.
> 
>   CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.10'
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
> Unable to build the vmmon module./
> 
> Does anyone have an idea of what I am doing wrong and/or missing? Thanks!

A quick search on google for "Symbol version dump" vmware, the 3rd link
is to the Novell forum.  Try the fixes in this thread...

http://forums.novell.com/group/novell.support.suse.linux.enterprise-server/readerNoFrame.tpt/@thread@53@F@10@S-,D@NONE+1825/@article@1825

Good luck.

Michael