让 VMWare Workstation 5.5.3 能够在 Ubuntu 7.04 （Feisty Fawn）中正常运行！
今天查看Linux Kernel modules，忽然发现/lib/modules下面有一个旧内核的目录，好奇之下进去看看，结果有了新发现，里面还有一些残存的配置，从名称看来应该是VMWare相关的，难不成是当初安装的时候，安装程序放的一些共享库在kernel modules目录中的？看看新内核的module目录，什么都没有：[xport@ubuntu misc] $ pwd
/lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/misc
[xport@ubuntu misc] $ ls -l
总用量 1380
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2007-04-21 01:33 vmmon.ko -> /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/misc/vmmon.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 487101 2007-04-21 01:33 vmmon.o
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2007-04-21 01:34 vmnet.ko -> /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/misc/vmnet.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 913781 2007-04-21 01:34 vmnet.o
念及*NIX的好处，直接mv过去好了，应该可以直接用吧？！
[xport@ubuntu ~] $ sudo cp /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/misc/*.o /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/misc/
[xport@ubuntu ~] $ cd/lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/misc
[xport@ubuntu misc] $ sudo ln -svmmon.o vmmon.ko
[xport@ubuntu misc] $ sudo ln -svmnet.o vmnet.ko
但是这样运行vmware的网络服务却不成功，提示说：
[xport@ubuntu ~] $ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start
vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.
运行vmware-config.pl又出来这个错误提示：
[xport@ubuntu ~] $ sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
...
... 省略 ...
...
None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel.Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)?
Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel?
Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.
Building the vmmon module.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic'
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:80:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘compat_exit’
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘exit_code’
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘_syscall1’
make: *** Error 1
make: *** Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic'
make: *** Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.
For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".
Execution aborted.
原来是build modules的时候出现了错误！
要解决此问题，需要修改VMWare的module source，所有的source都是一个tar文件：
[xport@ubuntu ~] $ ls -l /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/
总用量 1824
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 706560 2007-04-21 01:33 vmmon.tar <--- 我们需要修改这个tar文件中的 compat_kernel.h
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 378880 2007-02-17 16:37 vmnet.tar
-r--r--r-- 1 root root51200 2007-02-17 16:37 vmppuser.tar
修改内容如下，即把第21行的代码给注释掉后，把此文件再写回原来的vmmon.tar档案中：
/*
* static inline _syscall1(int, compat_exit, int, exit_code);
*/
这个做完以后，就可以再次运行vmware-config.pl去编译生成kernel modules了！
*** 补遗 ***
后来在论坛闲逛的时候，看到了更好的解决办法，我的手法有些暴力＋粗糙了！
修改如下（原来是VMWare与2.6.19之后的内核有不兼容的地方）：
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,19)
static inline _syscall1(int, compat_exit, int, exit_code);
#endif
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