I have followed this tutorial. I installed RHEL5.3 on hardware RAID5 with three 500GB HDDs & then installed VMware rpm on it. It is working OK but when I created new virtual machine (RHEL5) it runs the setup but unable to find any valid hard disk at the time of disk druid step.

Does VMWare supports SATA Hard disks with RAID??

Thanks
Sushant Chawla

The path “/lib/modules/2.6.29.5-grsec-hostnoc-4.2.0-i386-libata/build” is not
an existing directory.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

[/lib/modules/2.6.29.5-grsec-hostnoc-4.2.0-i386-libata]# ls -la

total 824
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 Oct 20  2009 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root   4096 Oct 20  2009 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     64 Oct 20  2009 build -> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel               -2.6.29.5grsechostnoc4.2.0i386libata
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root   4096 Oct 20  2009 kernel/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149315 Jul  9  2009 modules.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     69 Jul  9  2009 modules.ccwmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140869 Jul  9  2009 modules.dep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    147 Jul  9  2009 modules.ieee1394map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    141 Jul  9  2009 modules.inputmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12401 Jul  9  2009 modules.isapnpmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     74 Jul  9  2009 modules.ofmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  27392 Jul  9  2009 modules.order
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112484 Jul  9  2009 modules.pcimap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    463 Jul  9  2009 modules.seriomap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  63412 Jul  9  2009 modules.symbols
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 192049 Jul  9  2009 modules.usbmap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     64 Oct 20  2009 source -> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kerne               l-2.6.29.5grsechostnoc4.2.0i386libata

Build linked to /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.29.5grsechostnoc4.2.0i386libata but the direct /usr/src/redhat/BUILD is empty

now what i must do please help me

Thank you

Having issues with the location of the C header files required by vmware-config.pl running on Centos5

Kernel and kernel-devel packages appear to match:

#uname -r
2.6.18-92.1.22.el5

# yum list kernel-devel
Loading \fastestmirror\ plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.raystedman.net
* updates: http://ftp.usf.edu
* addons: centos.cogentcloud.com
* extras: linux.mirrors.es.net
Installed Packages
kernel-devel.i686 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 installed

However, I can’t find the location of the include directory for 2.6.18-92.1.22.e15:

# pwd
/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
# ls
build modules.dep modules.pcimap updates
extra modules.ieee1394map modules.seriomap weak-updates
kernel modules.inputmap modules.symbols
modules.alias modules.isapnpmap modules.usbmap
modules.ccwmap modules.ofmap source
# file build
build: broken symbolic link to `../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.22.el5-i686′

# ls /usr/src/kernels/
2.6.18-92.el5

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Marc

Make Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) / AMD VT enabled in system bios and yiu should able to load 64 bit guest oses.

I have installed the Centos5.1 64 and VMware Server 2 64 bits too and when I try create a new VM in 64 bits mode, the installation it’s not possible because the boot installation of UBuntu 64 or other Operating System in 64bits mode not recognize the 64 bits system. The message is that the hardware it’s in 32 bits only.

Anybody have any idea about this?

Thank’s
Luis

Unfortunately I had to re-install Linux and the followed the installation instructions given Vivek Gite, thanks a mil to him :)

Building for VMware Server 1.0.0.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config11/vmmon-only’
make -C /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5-i686/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5-i686′
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config11/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config11/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:15:
./include/linux/kernel.h:10:20: error: stdarg.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config11/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:15:
./include/linux/kernel.h:126: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘…’ before ‘va_list’
./include/linux/kernel.h:130: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘…’ before ‘va_list’
./include/linux/kernel.h:134: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘…’ before ‘va_list’
./include/linux/kernel.h:141: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘…’ before ‘va_list’
./include/linux/kernel.h:156: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘…’ before ‘va_list’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config11/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config11/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5-i686′
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config11/vmmon-only’
Unable to build the vmmon module.

……….
Using compiler “/usr/bin/gcc”. Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only’
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5-i686′
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:201: warning: ‘struct vm_fault’ declared inside parameter list
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:201: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:204: error: unknown field ‘fault’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:205: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1225: warning: ‘struct vm_fault’ declared inside parameter list
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1226: error: conflicting types for ‘LinuxDriverNoPage’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:201: error: previous declaration of ‘LinuxDriverNoPage’ was here
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriverNoPage’:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1231: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1238: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5-i686′
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only’
Unable to build the vmmon module.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at “http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html” and
“http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html”.

Execution aborted.

#yum update

make sure the kernel-devel and kernel-header is the same version you used for your kernel. check it by

#uname -r

btw .. thank you very much for this gr8 tutorial. very usefull one

You need to install the kernel-devel