Question

I’m going to install VMware 8 on debian 6 with 3.2.xx kernel. I’ve installed it thoroughly and it seemed that there wasn’t any error in installing process.but when I want to run VMware workstation it got an error which says:

Failed to compile module vmmon

what is the cause of this error and how can I solve it?

log ouput:

2012-10-11T19:29:37.521+03:30| vthread-3| I120: Building module with command: /usr/bin/make -j -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only$
2012-10-11T19:29:39.324+03:30| vthread-3| I120: Failed to compile module vmmon!

Answer 1

I user this commands to solve my problem:

# cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules;
# wget http://pavlinux.ru/vmware/8.0.0/source.tar.lzma;
# tar -xf source.tar.lzma;
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all;