latest upgrade seems to have broken vmware3

Kip Macy kip.macy at gmail.com
Mon Jan 1 15:37:32 PST 2007


"avail_end" has been gone for a while. If you're up to it, you can update
the code to calculate it by iterating through the ranges in phys_avail array
and find the highest address. HTH.

-Kip



On 1/1/07, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> I've only seen one or two mentions of this after a fair amount of
> googling, so I don't know if it's just something on my system or more
> general.
>
> I've had vmware3 working without problems for quite awhile.  Today, I
> upgraded to the latest CURRENT and when I started vmware I got an error
> message that the vmmon module wasn't loaded.
>
> I then tried to kldload it--the module is still showing in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/vmware/modules/vmmon_up.ko
>
> I got the message that there was no such file or directory.
>
> One googled solution, although a bit old, suggested reinstalling rtc
> then reinstalling vmware3.  I tried this solution however, the build
> died in vmmon-only.  It shows an error at line 1344 of
> work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c
>
>
>
> /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c:1344:
> error: `avail_end' undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c:1344:
> error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>
> /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c:1344:
> error: for each function it appears in.)
> *** Error code 1
>
> (Then it gives the usual stop in /usr/ports/blah/blah).
> Those are the only errors I see before the stop error.
>
>
>
> So, I'm at a bit of a loss, I'm not sure what the next step would be to
> troubleshoot the problem.
>
> Thank you for any help.  I'm not sure what other information would be
> useful, but can reproduce this consistantly.
>
>
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>
> Scott Robbins
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