vmware kernel modules for 2.6.22-15 missing

[Onno Benschop]

Binary package hint: vmware-server-kernel-modules

Can this please be updated whenever the kernel is updated, before you release the kernel?

[Onno Benschop (onno-itmaze)]

Hmm, there should also be a dependency that stops this kind of behaviour, that is, if there is no vmware module, the updated kernel modules should also not be able to be installed.

[Onno Benschop (onno-itmaze)]

The VMware packages were installed from the Canonical partner repository:
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

[Nick Barcet (nijaba)]

There is indeed a dependency, but it is still met as the old kernel is still installed (but unfortunately not running).
I agree that this could be improved, though.

[erny (erevilla)]

I just created a symbolic link to kernel modules of 2.6.22-14 and it works, although that not be very safe:

sudo ln -sf /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/updates/ /lib/modules/2.6.22-15-generic/

[Onno Benschop (onno-itmaze)]

Erny, a better process I just bumped into is outlined here:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/36849

In essence, you install the vmware-server-kernel-source package and build it for the new kernel, then install the resulting package. I cannot say if this will work for all future versions of the kernel -- I suspect not -- but it would be pretty safe to say that it will work for 2.6.22-* versions at least.

I should point out it now appears that fixing this bug should be trivial, given that a package such as vmware-server-kernel-source exists -- something which I didn't know until about 10 minutes ago -- and that it does not appear to be dependent on VMware to actually do anything.

Perhaps there is a dependency in the vmware-server package that hasn't been configured correctly to force the kernel modules to be built -- but that is outside my area of expertise.

Of course, the kicker might be that this is known *not* to work for other kernel versions and that this bug is serving as a place-holder to fix that issue. (For kernels in Hardy and Intrepid.) I'll investigate that...

[Onno Benschop (onno-itmaze)]

In case my comment wasn't clear enough, this is only for Gutsy -- since Hardy and Intrepid don't yet have vmware-server at all.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

> In essence, you install the vmware-server-kernel-source package and build it
> for the new kernel, then install the resulting package.

Just to point out, that consits of:
  apt-get install vmware-server-kernel-source
  m-a a-i vmware-server-kernel-source

I did this yesterday on hardy 2.6.22-15-generic and it seems to have worked perfectly (working vmware-server now)

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Hi onno-itmaze,

Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ . Please then run following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux-image-`uname -r` 242505

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