I upgraded my laptop from openSuSE 10.3 to 11.3. The compilation of the vmmon modules failed with the message:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:146: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:147: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:150: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:151: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1670: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
make[4]: *** /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o Fehler 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9-/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:146: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:147: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:150: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:151: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1670: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
make[4]: *** /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o Fehler 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9-obj/i386/pae'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Fehler 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.
obj/i386/pae'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Fehler 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.
The update from VMware server 1.0.7 to 1.0.8 did not solve the problem - the error message was the same afterwards.
The problem seems not to be caused by the PAE support, because I tried with the default kernel, too. An update to VMware 2.0 is not the solution because of the lack of disk space.