Knoppix VMWare-tools Installation Problem..

[khandu]

Hi All..

I am totally new to Knoppix so please bear with me... I had to install it for some assignment...

I installed VMware WS on VISTA and then booted off Knoppix 5.1.1 CD Version

Then from Knoppix i did


knoppix-installer

and it installed knoppix into my Virtual HDD of Vmware.. it worked fine..

then i tried normally installing vmware-tools.. and i ran the vmware-config.pl.. it gave the following error




Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Guest operating system daemon: done
Trying to find a suitable vmmemctl module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmemctl modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmemctl module
for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)?
yes

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "4.1.2", while you are trying to use
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.2.1". This configuration is not recommended and
VMware Tools may crash if you'll continue. Please try to use exactly same
compiler as one used for building your kernel. Do you want to go with compiler
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.2.1" anyway? no

The memory manager driver (vmmemctl module) is used by VMware host software to
efficiently reclaim memory from a virtual machine.
If the driver is not available, VMware host software may instead need to swap
guest memory to disk, which may reduce performance.
The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work
independently of this feature.
If you want the memory management feature, you can install the driver by
running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure that gcc, binutils, make
and the kernel sources for your running kernel are installed on your machine.
These packages are available on your distribution's installation CD.
Press Enter key to continue

Trying to find a suitable vmhgfs module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmhgfs modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmhgfs module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? yes

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "4.1.2", while you are trying to use
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.2.1". This configuration is not recommended and
VMware Tools may crash if you'll continue. Please try to use exactly same
compiler as one used for building your kernel. Do you want to go with compiler
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.2.1" anyway? no yes

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

The path "/usr/src/linux/include" 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]


then i tried to install vmware tools as per instructions here

http://storybridge.org/wordpress/2007/02/05/knoppix-guest-on-vmware-fusion/

Now what I understood is that I need my kernel source code to install vmware-tools

so i did this step


KVER=`uname -r`
wget http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-$KVER.tar.bz2
tar xjf linux-$KVER.tar.bz2
cd linux-$KVER
cp /boot/config-$KVER .config
make oldconfig

My kernel is 2.6.19

now everything goes fiine.. but when i come to


make oldconfig

it gives the following error


HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:105:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:106:22: error: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:107:22: error: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:108:20: error: unistd.h: No such file or directory
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:109:19: error: fcntl.h: No such file or directory
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:110:20: error: string.h: No such file or directory
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:111:20: error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:112:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.1/include/syslimits.h:7,
from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.1/include/limits.h:11,
from scripts/basic/fixdep.c:113:
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.1/include/limits.h:122:61: error: limits.h: No such file or directory
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:114:19: error: ctype.h: No such file or directory
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:115:23: error: arpa/inet.h: No such file or directory
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'usage':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:129: warning: implicit declaration of function 'fprintf'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:129: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'fprintf'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:129: error: 'stderr' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:129: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:129: error: for each function it appears in.)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:130: warning: implicit declaration of function 'exit'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:130: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'print_cmdline':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:138: warning: implicit declaration of function 'printf'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:138: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'printf'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: At top level:
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:141: error: 'NULL' undeclared here (not in a function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'grow_config':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:154: warning: implicit declaration of function 'realloc'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:154: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:156: warning: implicit declaration of function 'perror'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:156: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'is_defined_config':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:172: warning: implicit declaration of function 'memcmp'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'define_config':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:185: warning: implicit declaration of function 'memcpy'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:185: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'memcpy'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'use_config':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:204: error: 'PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:212: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'memcpy'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:218: warning: implicit declaration of function 'tolower'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:220: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'printf'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:204: warning: unused variable 's'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: At top level:
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:223: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'size_t'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'parse_config_file':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:225: error: 'len' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:231: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ntohl'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:242: warning: implicit declaration of function 'isalnum'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'strrcmp':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:255: warning: implicit declaration of function 'strlen'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:255: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'strlen'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'do_config_file':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:266: error: storage size of 'st' isn't known
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:270: warning: implicit declaration of function 'open'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:270: error: 'O_RDONLY' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:272: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'fprintf'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:272: error: 'stderr' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:274: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:276: warning: implicit declaration of function 'fstat'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:278: warning: implicit declaration of function 'close'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:281: warning: implicit declaration of function 'mmap'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:281: error: 'PROT_READ' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:281: error: 'MAP_PRIVATE' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:281: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:288: error: too many arguments to function 'parse_config_file'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:290: warning: implicit declaration of function 'munmap'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:266: warning: unused variable 'st'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: At top level:
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:295: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'size_t'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'parse_dep_file':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:298: error: 'len' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:300: error: 'PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:302: warning: implicit declaration of function 'strchr'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:302: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'strchr'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:304: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'fprintf'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:304: error: 'stderr' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:305: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:307: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'memcpy'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:308: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'printf'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:300: warning: unused variable 's'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'print_deps':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:337: error: storage size of 'st' isn't known
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:341: error: 'O_RDONLY' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:343: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'fprintf'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:343: error: 'stderr' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:345: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:349: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'fprintf'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:353: error: 'PROT_READ' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:353: error: 'MAP_PRIVATE' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:353: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:360: error: too many arguments to function 'parse_dep_file'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:337: warning: unused variable 'st'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'traps':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:372: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'fprintf'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:372: error: 'stderr' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:374: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
make[1]: *** scripts/basic/fixdep Error 1
make: *** scripts_basic Error 2

Still the Vmware-tools config is unable to run.. giving same error as mentioned above..

I am using latest Vmware WS downloaded today itself..

Please guide me step-by-step here how to install the tools properly and then config my video/share folders with vista

Also the commands to download any packages if necessary and then to install vmwaretools

I am new to knoppix.. so plz try to give commands as to what to do

thanks guys..

NOTE: I am SU all the time while running all these steps

[Harry Kuhman]

I am totally new to Knoppix so please bear with me... I had to install it for some assignment...
Did you have to install Knoppix, or just install Linux? If Knoppix that's pretty strange, since an install of Knoppix is so plagued with problems that even Klaus Knopper calls the script one that "works occasionally" (http://lists.debian.org/debian-knoppix/2006/12/msg00009.html). Unless this is for a course in troubleshooting operating system problems, I can't imagine why an assignment would want you to install Knoppix.

[khandu]

its just for a small assignment and we started with knoppix for it..

can u please help with installation of vmware tools and/or kernel source required for it

[Harry Kuhman]

can u please help with installation of vmware tools and/or kernel source required for it
I've used VMWare player, but know very little about the tools. And as a general rule I don't help install Knoppix, since I believe that's an abomination. But we have a very knowledgeable VMWare user here named "ruymbeke" and I expect that when he sees your post he may be able to help. As to sources, have you looked at the DVD version? It's my understanding that sources that were left of the CD for space reasons are on the DVD. I'm not certain of that, but have seen others say it in these forums.