Re: Linux v2.6.20-rc5

[Jeff Chua]

On 3/8/07, albcamus <albcamus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I guess that it is because 'paravirt_ops' was exported as GPL symbol, whereas
> the vmware module doen't declare any license.
>
> I tried to add the following line:
>
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> into vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar under /usr/lib/vmare/modules/source/,
> then it works.


I'll try that. Thanks. Here's what I did, but don't know whether it's
the right approach (but, at least vmware still works) ...

Thanks,
Jeff.


--- vmware/vmmon-only/include/driver-config.h.org       2007-01-26
10:46:01 +0800
+++ vmware/vmmon-only/include/driver-config.h   2006-11-14 05:06:18 +0800
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
#include "includeCheck.h"

#include <linux/autoconf.h>
+#undef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
#include "compat_version.h"

/* We rely on Kernel Module support.  Check here. */
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