{"id":1624,"date":"2015-01-22T03:25:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T03:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qbytes.cloud\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2015-01-22T03:25:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T03:25:38","slug":"centos-linux-install-kernel-headers-build-vmware-3rd-party-modules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/2015\/01\/22\/centos-linux-install-kernel-headers-build-vmware-3rd-party-modules\/","title":{"rendered":"CentOS Linux install kernel headers to build vmware and vmon error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t have development package for building kernel modules to match the kernel. It is required to build 3rd party modules such as vmware or graphics card drivers.<\/p>\n<p>There is a package called kernel-devel. This package provides kernel headers and makefiles sufficient to build modules against the kernel package.<\/p>\n<p>Login as the root, and use yum command to install the same:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n\n# yum install kernel-devel\n\n<\/pre>\n<p>So I rebuilt the modules with these commands<\/p>\n<p>vmware-modconfig &#8211;console &#8211;build-mod vmmon<\/p>\n<p>vmware-modconfig &#8211;console &#8211;build-mod vmnet<\/p>\n<p>vmware-modconfig &#8211;console &#8211;build-mod vmci<\/p>\n<p>Then reloaded the modules<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n\n# modprobe vmmon\n\n# modprobe vmnet\n\n# modprobe vmci\n\n<\/pre>\n<p>Now I get;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n\n&#x5B;root@gemini ~]# service vmware restart\n\nStopping VMware services:\n\n   VMware Authentication Daemon                            &#x5B;  OK  ]\n\n   VM communication interface socket family                &#x5B;  OK  ]\n\n   Virtual machine communication interface                 &#x5B;  OK  ]\n\n   Virtual machine monitor                                 &#x5B;  OK  ]\n\n   Blocking file system                                    &#x5B;  OK  ]\n\nStarting VMware services:\n\n   Virtual machine monitor                                 &#x5B;  OK  ]\n\n   Virtual machine communication interface                 &#x5B;  OK  ]\n\n   VM communication interface socket family                &#x5B;  OK  ]\n\n   Blocking file system                                    &#x5B;  OK  ]\n\n   Virtual ethernet                                        &#x5B;  OK  ]\n\n   VMware Authentication Daemon                            &#x5B;  OK  ]\n\n   Shared Memory Available                                 &#x5B;  OK  ]\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t have development package for building kernel modules to match the kernel. It is required to build 3rd party modules such as vmware or graphics card drivers. There is a package called kernel-devel. This package provides kernel headers and makefiles sufficient to build modules against the kernel package. Login as the root, and use &#8230; <a title=\"CentOS Linux install kernel headers to build vmware and vmon error\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/2015\/01\/22\/centos-linux-install-kernel-headers-build-vmware-3rd-party-modules\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about CentOS Linux install kernel headers to build vmware and vmon error\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}