PCHAOS’s VMWare 10.0.0.5 Compile/Install Errors in Fedora 21

Pchaos informed me that my original patch didn’t work.  From his original source, I created this patch:

Switch to root and install the necessary packages which may be missing.

su -
yum install kernel-dev* gcc*  patch

Create these patch files with vi or your text editor of choice:

vi /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/pchaos_vmnet.patch

+++ vmnet-only/netif.c  2015-02-15 11:31:28.897708255 -0500
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
    memcpy(deviceName, devName, sizeof deviceName);
    NULL_TERMINATE_STRING(deviceName);

-   dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof *netIf, deviceName, VNetNetIfSetup);
+   dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof *netIf, deviceName, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, VNetNetIfSetup);
    if (!dev) {
       retval = -ENOMEM;
       goto out;

vi /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/pchaos_vsock.patch

+++ vsock-only/linux/notifyQState.c     2015-02-15 11:43:23.914571581 -0500
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
                      struct sockaddr_vm *dst,    // IN: unused
                      struct sockaddr_vm *src)    // IN: unused
 {
-   sk->sk_data_ready(sk, 0);
+   sk->sk_data_ready(sk);
 }


@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@
       }

       /* See the comment in VSockVmciNotifyPktSendPostEnqueue */
-   sk->sk_data_ready(sk, 0);
+      sk->sk_data_ready(sk);
    }

    return err;

+++ vsock-only/linux/notify.c   2015-02-15 11:45:39.099251920 -0500
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@
    PKT_FIELD(vsk, sentWaitingRead) = FALSE;
 #endif

-   sk->sk_data_ready(sk, 0);
+   sk->sk_data_ready(sk);
 }

Move to the VMWare directory

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source

Make a copy of the source

cp vmnet.tar vmnet.tar.orig
cp vsock.tar vsock.tar.orig

Untar the VMWare source

tar -xf vmnet.tar
tar -xf vsock.tar

Apply patches

patch -p0 < pchaos_vmnet.patch
patch -p0 < pchaos_vsock_.patch

Tar the source

tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only/
tar -cf vsock.tar vsock-only/

Run the VMWare intaller

# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all