23.20 在VMware 6.0+Debian 4.0上安装VMwareTools

Q:

在VMware 6.0+Debian 4.0上执行vmware-install.pl安装VMwareTools，相关编译器
已存在，安装结束时注意到如下提示:

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To use the vmxnet driver, restart networking using the following commands:

/etc/init.d/networking stop
rmmod pcnet32
rmmod vmxnet
depmod -a
modprobe vmxnet
/etc/init.d/networking start
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但执行"modprobe vmxnet"报告找不到这个模块。

A:

[root@ /root/src/vmware-tools-distrib]> ls
./  ../  bin/  doc/  etc/  FILES  INSTALL@  installer/  lib/  vmware-install.pl@
[root@ /root/src/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source]> ls
./  ../  vmblock.tar  vmci.tar  vmdesched.tar  vmhgfs.tar  vmmemctl.tar  vmxnet.tar

将vmxnet.tar复制到/tmp目录下解压、编译，提示内核是用gcc 4.1编译的，而当前
gcc是4.3版的，导致编译模块失败，用"CC=gcc-4.1 make"编译成功。据此解决办法
如下:

[root@ /root/src]> ls -l /usr/bin/gcc*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 12-05 09:15 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  74104 2006-07-14 /usr/bin/gcc-2.95*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  80976 2007-01-04 /usr/bin/gcc-3.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 196932 06-24 10:23 /usr/bin/gcc-4.1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 207648 09-06 06:52 /usr/bin/gcc-4.3*
[root@ /root/src]> ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 /usr/bin/gcc
[root@ /root/src]> ls -l /usr/bin/gcc*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 12-09 13:50 /usr/bin/gcc -> /usr/bin/gcc-4.1*
[root@ /root/src/vmware-tools-distrib]> ./vmware-install.pl

建议事后恢复gcc的设置:

[root@ /root/src]> ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.3 /usr/bin/gcc

相关文件如下:

/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/misc/vmxnet.o
/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/misc/vmxnet.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/drivers/net/pcnet32.ko

建议在/etc/rc.local中增加如下内容:

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/etc/init.d/networking stop
rmmod pcnet32
rmmod vmxnet
depmod -a
modprobe vmxnet
/etc/init.d/networking start
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